But Hammond warns: Nobody is unsackable

RUTH BLAST

PHILIP Hammond has warned Boris Johnson “nobody is unsackable” after the Foreign Secretary was accused of trying to undermine Brexit talks.

The Chancellor blasted Boris’s own Brexit proposals, insisting Britain will remain “closely linked with the EU” following its European exit. And he accused Boris of hurting the negotiations, and demanded loyalty to Theresa May. He told the Tory conference in Manchester yesterday: “We all serve at the Prime Minister’s pleasure and we all owe the Prime Minister our allegiance and our loyalty within the Cabinet. “I have always operated on the principle that it is probably best to believe that nobody is unsackable.” He added: “The more we can show unity, the stronger our negotiating position with the EU would be.” And Mr Hammond said Tory in-fighting was damaging the economy, and called for all ministers to “pull their weight”.

He also distanced himself from Boris’s plans for a hard Brexit, declaring Britain’s economy will remain “closely linked with the EU”.

The Chancellor also hit out at Labour, calling Jeremy Corbyn a “dinosaur”. He said the party had been “taken hostage by a clique of hard-left extremist infiltrators, people who despise Britain’s values and talk down our country”.

He added: “I think we owe it to the next generation to show that Corbyn’s Marxist policies will inevitably lead us back to where Britain was in the late 1970s.

“They say politics is about the clash of ideas, so we say to Corbyn: bring it on.”

Outlining his own spending plans for Britain, Mr Hammond announced an extra £400million for transport links in the north of England. The cash will allow cities including Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and York to link up to the high speed rail route HS2. ALOOF: Mr Rees-Mogg at meeting – with a photograph of ex-PM Mrs Thatcher RUTH Davidson has told the party to “man up” and get over its “nervous breakdown” following the General Election humiliation.

The Scottish Tory leader urged MPs to get back on the front foot after they were left without an overall Commons majority.

She said: “I don’t think the party needs saving.

“It needs to get over its current nervous breakdown and man up a little bit.”

LEGGING IT: Boris takes his morning run in Manchester

A TORY MP reportedly claimed unemployed young people should take a job on a farm working alongside “gorgeous EU women”. But Craig Mackinlay later said “flippant“remarks had been misquoted and he was saying people should be willing to move to find work.