May must stay strong and deliver on Brexit

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HE Prime Minister is absolutely right to warn today that a failure to deliver Brexit will be a catastrophe for this country and destroy trust in politics.

Those Remainers who hope that defeat of the EU deal on Tuesday will bring about a second referendum to block Brexit should heed Mrs May’s words.

But the PM should also note the result of our poll, which shows that her deal as it stands – with its controversial backstop – is unacceptable to those polled, not just the vast majority of MPs.

People in this country are prepared for no-deal and support it, despite the Remainers’ Project Fear nonsense.

The poll also shows that there is no appetite for a second referendum outside the Remainer elites in London.

Mrs May has worked hard and most of what she has produced in the Withdrawal Agreement is very good.

However, it looks likely the deal will be rejected by MPs on Tuesday and hopefully the EU will finally wake up and realise that it needs to compromise to make Mrs May’s deal acceptable.

If, as sadly seems likely, Brussels holds firm to its ideological federalist blinkered approach then it will be EU countries which suffer and not Britain.

Without a deal, Mrs May must hold her nerve and pursue a managed no-deal.

As she says, if Brexit is not delivered then the damage to the reputation of British democracy will take more than a generation to heal.