19 May 2025, 21:59 | Updated: 19 May 2025, 22:17

By Suella Braverman

Well, that didn’t take long, did it?

Keir Starmer - once the high priest of the ‘People’s Vote’ crusade, now the accidental custodian of Brexit’s legacy - has wasted no time beginning the quiet demolition of what was so arduously won in 2016. For all his pre-election affectations of respecting the referendum result, the mask has now slipped.

And beneath it lies not a statesman, but a man still entranced by the siren song of Brussels.

Many of us suspected this moment would come. But few believed it would arrive with such speed and shamelessness.

We had hoped- naïvely, perhaps - that the political battering Labour took in its former heartlands, that great Red Wall rebuke, might have taught him something. That even now, trailing in the polls and straining to present himself as a man of the people, Starmer might resist the temptation to surrender sovereignty for the warm embrace of the EU. To do so would surely be electoral folly?

But no. With the ink barely dry, we now read the fine print of a deal which amounts not to statesmanship, but........

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