GOVE PROBE CLOSING IN
DEMANDING a Brexit second vote for MPs while denying the British public a second referendum is classic Boris Johnson hypocrisy.
Bluster from a Tory Prime Minister making it up as he goes along cannot mask the humiliation of a lost extension rebellion.
Start digging a deep Halloween ditch, because his prospects of delivering Brexit by October 31 are vanishingly small.
We should hold him to that vow to die politically. That, I concede, is likely to be another immediate broken promise from a shameless stranger to the truth.
Behaving like a spoiled brat, refusing to sign the letter he vowed never to send, only emphasised the desperation of a petulant Johnson without – as a Tory Cabinet Minister sitting on the Brexit preparations committee admitted – a masterplan.
The Prime Minister who lives life on the hoof, doing what’s best for him at
ON Shambolic Saturday a visitor to the House of Lords complained he could buy a three-course meal and wine but not a sarnie or tea. Welcome to the most privileged club where luncheon’s little more than the price of a cuppa. any given moment, will continue bluffing in the hope of making Britain poorer and weaker with a bad deal worse than Theresa May’s. Johnson’s surrendered control of events so even if Saturday’s Shambles is reversed he’ll never regain full control of events in Parliament.
I asked a Labour shadow cabinet member what happens next, and the answer was refreshingly honest: “I haven’t the foggiest.” What we can see is Labour swinging towards a fresh referendum before a general election probably delayed until next Spring. Labour’s Keir Starmer announcing he’ll attempt to secure a people’s vote – between the best deal, remaining in Europe, and Johnson knocking £50billion off the economy to leave everyone £2,000 worse off – is a guerrilla war.
Johnson’s Get Brexit Done slogan will look the most vacuous in history, when approval by MPs for his con trick to dismantle workers’, consumers’ and environmental rights triggers a year of negotiations on trading with Europe.
Just as getting a leg hacked off won’t help you run again, ramming Brexit through Parliament isn’t closure. Suffering Brexit fatigue? Sorry, but we’re not at the end of the beginning never mind the beginning of the end. told Wrexham MP Lucas his department’s website was wrong to list Gove in charge of data and electoral law, two key areas, when both were delegated to junior ministers.
Lucas is also scrutinising Dominic Cummings, Gove’s protege who ran Vote Leave before flopping into No10 to advise the PM, despite being found in contempt of Parliament.
Brexit will limit when Lucas can speak in the Commons, but he was SPENDING carrying a bulging file when I Michael Gove bumped into him.
Imagine if dubious pasts proved goodbye for Gove, Cummings and even Johnson. FORCED to surrender responsibility for electoral law and data protection over his part in a murky Brexit campaign, Michael Gove’s Cabinet Office role is increasingly uncomfortable.
The spider at the centre of Johnson’s Whitehall web will feel the threads trembling dangerously this week as MP investigator Ian Lucas raises explosive questions.
Co-head of a Brexit campaign fined £61,000 for breaking spending laws and under scrutiny over whether his abortive 2016
Tory leadership bid illegally used Vote Leave’s files, Gove can’t do his job properly.
Cabinet Office mandarin John Manzoni
His prospects of delivering Brexit by October 31 are vanishing
DEPUTY DUP leader Nigel Dodds realised too late that abandoning Brexit is safer for the DUP than having a Disunited Kingdom border down the Irish Sea. Many MPs now predict a united Ireland within a decade after Johnson’s cold-blooded betrayal of his Government’s allies. Corbyn and McDonnell were the Unionists’ Labour bogeymen, but they were DUPed by a traitorous Tory.