Remainers need unity if they are to defeat Boris Johnson over Brexit – The Yorkshire Post says
If only the same could be said about the Prime Minister’s many opponents in Parliament – their total disunity risks undermining efforts to secure a managed exit from the EU or the possibility of a second referendum on this vexed issue.
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Hide AdThe week began with Caroline Lucas, the Green Party’s sole MP, proposing an all-female cabinet of national unity to block a no-deal Brexit, even though her suggested line-up had no representation from BME politicians.
It continued with Philip Hammond, the former Chancellor and prominent Remainer, threatening to vote against his own government in any motion of no confidence.
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Hide AdThen Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn – whose own approach to Brexit has been characterised by its inconsistency – volunteered his services as a caretaker PM in order to negate any possibility of Britain crashing out of the EU without a deal.
And now Jo Swinson, the newly-elected Lib Dem leader, is basically vetoing any policy intervention that falls short of Britain staying in the European Union.
Yet this collective failure to come up with a coherent strategy does not bode well if the Parliamentary arithmetic, before or after an election, leaves the opposition parties, and more devout Remainers, in a position to attempt to oust Mr Johnson from office. They don’t have long to get their act together.