The truth hurts for Brexiteers who try to fake a poll position

THURSDAY saw senior Brexiteers such as former cabinet minister Peter Lilley — as well as 25 Labour MPs — claim a new poll showed the majority of the public wants a No Deal Brexit. As so often with hardcore Brexiteers, they were being disingenuous. Indeed, so misleading were they that the pollster YouGov issued a statement explaining that the opposite was true: ‘Only 25 per cent of people would consider a No Deal Brexit to be a positive outcome. Twice as many (50 per cent) would see it as a negative, and 37 per cent as a “very bad” outcome. Even among Leave voters, only half of them see a No Deal conclusion as positive.’ That the No Deal brigade should resort to blatant falsehoods shows how desperate they have become.