MAY DAY! MAY DAY!
DIRECT TO VOTERS OVER BREXIT
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Meanwhile, Boris Johnson pitched up in Belfast at the DUP’s annual conference to rubbish Mrs May’s plans.
He told leader Arlene Foster and delegates the Irish border backstop should be “junked” and said Mrs May’s Brexit deal will turn Northern Ireland into an EU “economic semi-colony”.
The 10 DUP MPs say they will not back Mrs May at next month’s vote unless she scraps proposals that could align Northern Ireland with EU rules after Brexit. The DUP says that would effectively carve Northern Ireland off from the UK.
But Mr Johnson did urge unionists to honour their Westminster deal propping up the Tories. He warned the alternative would be a Labour government led by Mr Corbyn “whose avowed policy is to break up this country.”
Mr Johnson said under current plans Northern Ireland would have to accept EU rules from “lawnmower noise, the labelling of sardines, to the use of recreational watercraft.”
He added: “Nowhere has a more illustrious history than Northern Ireland when it comes to the creation of recreational watercraft. The Titanic springs to mind, and now is the time to point out the iceberg ahead.”
Mrs May’s appeal to the nation will be her most personal yet. No10 spin doctors aim to bury her Maybot image from last year’s election. In the letter, she says: “From my first day in the job, I knew I had a clear mission before me – a duty to honour the result of the referendum.
“Throughout the long and complex negotiations I have never lost sight of that duty.”