THIS ISN’T PRETTY, PRITI!

HARDLINE Brexiteer Priti Patel MP wants the Cabinet to blackmail the Irish Government into backing down over its intransigence towards Mrs May, using the threat of food shortages.

For Ireland is heavily dependent on trade with the UK, with Britain

accounting for 29 per cent of its imports. Ms Patel’s suggestion is not just stupid politics but most inappropriate. Using food shortages as a bargaining chip is morally obscene considering that one million Irish died in the Great Famine between 1845 and 1849.