Starmer’s surrender deal has triggered the bat signal for all Brexiters. Starmer has seriously underestimated the level of fury at his sellout…
One Vote Leave veteran tells Guido:
“This is Chequers, it’s signed up to rule taking with no say. EU control over our laws, ECJ control over a huge spread of our national life, no guarantee that all the checks will go, no say (the feed in rights state: “These rights would not extend to participation in the work of the Council or its preparatory bodies”) and we have to pay them for the privilege: (“The SPS Agreement should provide for an appropriate financial contribution from the United Kingdom to support the relevant costs associated with the European Union’s work in this policy area”). This deal will result in us paying more money to the EU, loss of control of laws with a Potemkin “feed in” that means nothing, no change to relationship with NI and no guarantee that border checks will go.”
In short, a total disaster. The clans are stirring, Guido was ahead of the curve warning that this sellout was coming…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”