At long last, arrogant MPs are starting to listen to their voters

A WEEK ago, The Mail on Sunday was the first to detect a creeping change in our political atmosphere, and one which might yet lead us to reach a sensible, adult compromise on Brexit.

Such a shift is now obviously under way.

Indulgence is, as ever, exacting its price. After the hangover comes the sobering up, the return to plain, dutiful reality, the world where bills have to be paid, promises kept and wild fantasies put to one side.

That may be where we are now heading. If Jacob Rees-Mogg is shifting, then this must be a sign that others are doing so, too.

In fact, obduracy and unwillingness to compromise are now increasingly confined to the oily manoeuvres of diehard Remainers – especially Labour’s Yvette Cooper, who rather absurdly owes her parliamentary seat to proLeave Labour voters.

These people dress up their hopes of frustrating the referendum as mere delay.

But there is a danger that the delay could turn into indefinite postponement, unless sensible Leavers find a position around which they can coalesce. The Prime Minister has for some time stressed this risk – that by holding too rigidly to absolute demands, Brexiteers could actually create circumstances in which Brexit was cancelled.

For the first time in months it looks as if MPs are starting to pay heed to their constituents, on both sides of the argument, who above all want the Brexit matter resolved and decided.

End this unjust incarceration now

IT is a situation which simply beggars belief. Nine people with autism have been detained – some for many years – in the maximum security State Hospital at Carstairs, Lanarkshire.

Innocent of any crimes, this small group of people are locked up alongside killers and rapists.

One man, Kyle Gibbon, has now been separated from his family for 13 years – a period during which, his mother says, he has been beaten, bullied and abused.

And so, thank goodness, the incarceration of Kyle and others may soon be at an end.

Following a Scottish Mail on Sunday campaign, the Government has announced an inquiry into the detention of these vulnerable patients. But while we welcome the Government’s decision, we believe ministers must go further and ensure their immediate release.

It cannot be right that people with autism are detained in this way.

Kyle Gibbon and others locked up because of their autism shouldn’t have to spend another night in Carstairs.

Terrorist apologist who is unfit to lead

TODAY is Holocaust Remembrance Day, exactly 74 years since the Soviet Red Army reached the death-camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the full horror of the Nazi massacre of Europe’s Jews was revealed.

For a while, after Auschwitz was opened to the gaze of all, antiSemitism was at least hidden and furtive. Now it dares to show itself again.

In a particularly disturbing and shocking example, the Countdown presenter Rachel Riley – who publicly condemned the anti-Semitism of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party – has been deluged with threats and abuse on Twitter, which became so bad that she has now been given extra security protection.

Corbyn supporters have even bombarded Channel 4 with demands that Ms Riley, a Briton who happens also to be a Jew, should be fired from her job.

But the problem really originates in Labour’s leadership.

Mr Corbyn’s crude student union ideas about the Middle East, his simple-minded willingness to apologise for terrorists and fanatics, make him unfit to lead – and make his party unfit to govern.