Shaky PM messed up

TROOPS on the streets is another alarming part of Brexit fall-out the hardline Leavers behind the narrow referendum win never told voters about.

We hope the army won’t be required, but the military’s involvement in contingency planning is Project Reality not Project Fear because, frankly, nobody knows what might happen.

Preparing for the worst and hoping for the best plunges us into damaging uncertainty.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is turning the screw on a shaky PM by setting out his alternative plan for what he terms a sensible jobs-first Brexit – as Theresa May ploughs on with a mess ridiculed both by Remainers and Leavers.

May’s inability to secure agreement this late in the day is the failure of a PM who is part of the problem, not the solution.