Britain must set out clear boundaries on immigration as we prepare to negotiate Brexit
More of us ready to believe in a brighter future but to do so we need to take control of our country
LET us be clear what Britain’s red lines should be as we negotiate Brexit.
And let us crush the suggestion that our starting point should be securing some minor tweak on immigration and staying in the single market.
That will satisfy no one but the Remain minority still clinging to the hope of shackling Britain to the EU for ever.
It is true an “emergency brake” on migrants might just have got David Cameron over the line in the referendum.
But the genie is now out of the bottle.
More and more people believe Brexit will give us a much brighter future.
So our starting positions should be:
FULL control over immigration.
UK law MUST be sovereign.
And we MUST be free to sign trade agreements with all the non-EU nations already queuing up to negotiate them.
We can still work out a trade deal beneficial both to us and the EU, negotiate to maintain “passporting” rights for City firms and try somehow to appease the Remain majorities in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
But 17.4million voters gave Leave the biggest mandate in British history to take back control over our laws, our immigration policy and our power to trade independently outside the EU.
The Government dare not sell them short.
Don't go overboard, Theresa
CAPITALISM is the best system ever devised to reduce poverty and create wealth. Theresa May is right to target abuses giving it a bad name.
The greed of Sir Philip Green and the tax dodges of the tech giants convince ordinary people the cards are always stacked in the fatcats’ favour.
Green should be stripped of his knighthood and made to fill the chasm where the BHS pension fund should be.
All earnings in the UK must be taxed here. And some executive pay HAS hit offensive levels, when millions have to eke out a living on minimum wage.
But let’s get some perspective. The vast majority of firms behave well, pay their tax and create millions of jobs. Profit is not a dirty word. It feeds families.
Mrs May is a Tory Prime Minister. She must not get carried away aping Ed Miliband’s anti-business rhetoric.
Looney left attack Prince George
HATE-filled loony lefties doubtless saw only “white privilege, living off public money” in Prince George’s charming birthday snaps.
It’s a view, we suppose.
But an odd one if you’re making about £80,000 yourself from public money and donations, promoting our culture to the world for the British Council (patron, HM Queen).
Angela Gibbins may dream of Britain as a socialist republic under President Corbyn, with Royals herded into exile.
But until the revolution she should consider another line of work.