‘Back PM or see Corbyn in No 10’ says former minister

FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green has warned fellow pro-EU Tories they risk putting Jeremy Corbyn in No10 unless they back Theresa May in the party’s latest Brexit crisis.

Mr Green spoke out amid claims by Brexiteers that the Prime Minister wants to water down plans to quit the EU Customs Union to protect UK trade.

Mr Green said he was confident Mrs May would achieve a compromise which satisfies both pro and anti-Brexit Conservatives.

Any Tory turbulence that undermined Mrs May would make the ‘national disaster of a hard-Left Corbyn government’ more likely. ‘That would not just wreck our economy, but damage our whole democracy,’ said Mr Green.

He said Britain will leave the Customs Union as Mrs May had promised, but that she will win a ‘customs arrangement’.

This would allow Britain and the EU to carry on trading smoothly – and avoid fears of the return of a hard border in Ireland.

He said Mrs May’s 2017 election manifesto promised the UK would ‘no longer be members of the single market or customs union but seek a comprehensive free trade and customs agreement’ instead – and he said she will deliver it.

‘It won’t be the customs union, but it will be a mutually beneficial customs arrangement… another sensible compromise which will contribute to the success of the negotiations,’ he said.

JEREMY CORBYN left a meeting with Jewish leaders last week claiming that he was ‘absolutely committed’ to rooting out anti-Semitism in Labour. Our disturbing findings today suggest otherwise – and emphasise Mr Corbyn’s complete unsuitability for high office.

Within hours of the meeting, dozens of grossly offensive messages had been left by Mr Corbyn’s followers on his Facebook site, and remain there days later without censure or protest. How could he let this happen?

Mr Corbyn was propelled to power by a hard-Left sect which has effectively marshalled the forces of social media.

It was this militant efficiency which brought him so chillingly close to ousting Theresa May from Downing Street in last year’s General Election.

It means Mr Corbyn is indebted to a cabal which has been infected with racists who propagate vile tropes about the ‘Zionist lobby’ and ‘supremacist Jews’ supposedly controlling British politics.

One message described Jews as the ‘biggest problem facing the world for centuries’, while others accused them of being ‘cowards’ and playing ‘victims’ by talking about being ‘massacred by Hitler’.

The ranks of Mr Corbyn’s supporters are dominated by Palestinian rights campaigners, whose passion for that cause has been warped into this virulent anti-Semitism.

These are the hateful beliefs of the few – but Mr Corbyn does not run a fringe party. Labour is level pegging with the Conservatives in the polls: a vote swing of just 1.6 per cent would give him control of the Commons as the largest single party.

Mr Corbyn’s supporters are polluting our national life, yet he appears incapable of dealing with the problem.

It is time he finally purged this poison from his party’s bloodstream.