Being a Brexiteer these days is like being Kenneth Williams playing Julius Caesar in Carry On Cleo. Far too often we find ourselves crashing around the place bellowing: ‘Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me.’
Last month Nigel Farage made waves by declaring that Brexit had ‘failed’ thanks to wilful Tory treachery. Prior to that, the Windsor Framework was interpreted as a conspiracy between Brussels and Rishi Sunak to bury Brexit.
Let’s stop being so jumpy whenever Rejoiner fanatics seize on opinion polls showing a degree of Brexit regret
The latest betrayal is said to be the decision by Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch to curtail the scope of the Retained EU Law Bill. Now she plans for it to remove 600 Brussels edicts from the statue book rather than the clean sweep of 4,000 originally envisaged.
Nobody can accuse Badenoch of making policy decisions based on what will work best for her in a future Tory leadership contest.
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