MPs and EU must back the best deal on Brexit

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ELL done to Theresa May for telling the Remainers to stop their whining in the bluntest possible terms.

It is time for MPs such as Anna Soubry and Dominic Grieve on the Tory benches and their Labour friends to give up on demanding a second referendum and get behind a good Brexit deal for Britain.

Let us be clear that the people have spoken and said they want to leave the EU.

Unfortunately, many MPs, peers and business figures who make up the elite in this country have not been listening.

Worse still, Remainer lobbying and arrogance are the biggest reasons that the EU has felt secure in not giving Britain a fair deal – because Jean-Claude Juncker, Michel Barnier and Donald Tusk have all been persuaded that Britain will end up staying in the EU.

But last Tuesday’s vote in Parliament was a significant moment in the Brexit debate.

The Remainer attempts to use the Commons to block Brexit were defeated, they failed to call for a vote on holding a second referendum because they knew they would lose, and MPs voted for changes to the Northern Ireland backstop to allow the deal to be agreed.

Mrs May’s intervention is spot on. Remainers have to realise there will be no second referendum. Instead, everybody needs to apply pressure on Brussels to offer the compromises necessary for both Britain and the EU to go forward with a deal.

As Mrs May says today, Brexit will happen – and the Remainers and their friends in Brussels need to finally wake up to that fact.