Remember that mildly cringeworthy gag when Boris won the Tory leadership contest, and he promised to ‘Deliver Brexit, Unite the Country and Defeat Jeremy Corbyn’? He joked that Defeat, Unite and Deliver made the rather unfortunate acronym of ‘dud’. Throw in ‘energise’, and he claimed that he would be the ‘dude’ to save the UK from its Brexistential crisis.
Dad jokes aside, Boris now needs to take a NAP if he’s serious about Brexit. He is making the biggest blunder of his political career by dismissing Nigel Farage’s offer of a Non-Aggression Pact with the Brexit party.
The only way now to deliver on the 2016 referendum result is to have a major clear-out of the democracy-denying Brexit blockers currently occupying the Commons’ green benches. But if the maths in Parliament has been tricky for the Conservative party recently, the maths in the polls are a nightmare. They suggest the Prime Minister has no clear path towards a workable majority in the House of Commons.
The Tories under Boris, despite what may have felt like a rapturous honeymoon period, sit at best at around 32 per cent in the polls, with Labour on around 24 per cent, and the Lib Dems at 18 per cent. Before
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