Labour’s damning silence on Brexit

The Labour party has updated the old metaphysical question: ‘If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?’ It ought to be protesting on behalf of all who are suffering because of Brexit. It ought to be throwing the government’s broken promises back at it and ramming home the message that voters cannot trust Boris Johnson. And yet, listen as hard you like, you cannot hear a sound.

If no one can hear Labour opposing, is it really an opposition?

The Brexit debacle is drowning once viable business sectors in bureaucracy and threatening what peace and prosperity Northern Ireland enjoyed.

Leading Labour MPs – not Corbynite has-beens, I must emphasise, but natural supporters of Keir Starmer’s leadership – cannot understand why he isn’t hammering a government that has betrayed the national interest and with it the futures of millions.

‘It’s not as if we have to make abstract arguments,’ said one.