MPs take back control

REMEMBER when Brexiteers such as Jacob Rees-Mogg wanted to restore the power and glory of Parliament? They kept talking of sovereignty. Well, members of the key Intelligence and Security Committee have just done their own bit to take back control — by rejecting Downing Street’s weak candidate to run it and backing Julian Lewis instead. Isn’t that exactly the sort of robust, free Parliament we were told Brexit would bring back? Just imagine the fuss from the likes of Mr Rees-Mogg if they were still on the backbenches. Instead all we hear is deafening silence from those former champions of parliamentary freedom.