Daily Mirror

Zombie PM May is facing a Brexit exit

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MIGRATION is a gaping hole in zombie May’s Brexit scam.

Myths and scaremonge­ring mixed with public unease were the toxic mix which ignited the narrow vote for a cataclysmi­c wrench.

Yet we still don’t know what the Prime Minister would do three months before Britain’s due to leave Europe – and two and a half years after that referendum.

The glaring gap in the PM’s plan, what replaces the movement of people with our 27 neighbours, has been put on the back burner.

That her Cabinet is split on this, like so many other issues including fishing, is another reason she’ll be defeated tomorrow and toppled.

The dead woman walking, who in 2018 lived to die another day, is finally running out of road.

Despite repeated denials, she might be tempted to buy a reprieve by cancelling the date with destiny, scrapping the killer vote.

The humiliatio­n, however, would be so great she’d likely be ousted anyway. Stubborn May deserves no sympathy. She is a coldly calculatin­g politician who is happy to roll in the gutter.

Scared to confront lies of Tory Brextremis­ts was cowardice. Posturing as championin­g the national interest while acting like a cheap partisan defines Mayism.

From the loss of 21,000 police officers to dispatchin­g racist “Go Home” vans, her record’s a long blemish.

As Home Secretary then PM, she approved of the austerity which brought the NHS to its knees, squeezed wages, imposed the hated Bedroom Tax and created a Universal

Credit monster. Denouncing “burning injustices” then looking the other way (Orgreave) or creating unfairness (Windrush) is a second Tory female PM failing the “deeds not words” Suffragett­e test.

May’s finished and it’s a question of when, not if, history dumps her. Extending the Brexit deadline beyond March 29 is the only sensible option and Jeremy Corbyn’s warming to a people’s vote to end Parliament’s deadlock. An early election’s unlikely as Labour calling a no confidence vote could backfire, uniting Tory and DUP turkeys unlikely to back Christmas. May’s defeated, Brexit is on life support but winkling out the Tories continues to be a work in progress.

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