Miliband launches UK comeback – with war on the Hard Brexiteers

DAVID MILIBAND will tomorrow launch his comeback in UK politics by joining an allparty move t o stop ‘ hard Brexit’ cheerleaders Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg ‘holding Britain to ransom’.

The former Foreign Secretary, pictured, will deliver the broadside on a shared platform with former Liberal Democrat Deputy Premier Nick Clegg and ex-Tory Cabinet Minister Nicky Morgan.

In a move that is bound to renew speculation of a new Centre Party, they will call on MPs to ‘reject siren calls to completely sever the UK’s deep economic ties with the EU’. Writing in today’s Mail on Sunday, the trio warn: ‘ A hard Brexit won’t create Global Britain. It is merely a path to a fantasy island of our own where we will have reduced access to our largest markets and a diminished standing in the world.’

Mr Miliband’s participation in the anti-hard Brexit campaign is the clearest sign yet that he is ready to return to frontline politics in Britain. He moved to the US to work for an overseas aid charity after humiliatingly losing the Labour leadership contest to his brother Ed in 2010.

Many Labour MPs hope he will succeed Jeremy Corbyn and ditch the party’s raft of controversial Left-wing policies.

The t rio’s move came as Theresa May launched her own bid to end the Cabinet feud over the type of Brexit deal.

Days after Mr Johnson scorned her ‘crazy’ plan for a ‘customs partnership’ with the EU, the Prime Minister hit back at claims it would make cutting ties with Brussels pointless, saying: ‘ You can trust me to deliver.

‘I will ensure that we take back control of our laws. So Brexit means that, while we may sometimes choose to take the same approach as the EU, our laws will be made in Westminster, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast, with those laws tried by British judges.’

And in an apparent olive branch to Mr Johnson – who famously pledged that quitting the EU would mean an extra £ 350 million a week for the NHS – Mrs May said: ‘There will be billions of pounds we used to send to Brussels which we will be able to spend on domestic priorities including our NHS.’

Messrs Miliband and Clegg and Ms Morgan show no such restraint in attacking the hardl i ne Brexiteers. They say: ‘Less than six months before the deadline for concluding the terms of our departure, hardBrexit demands are holding the country’s negotiating position to ransom.’