No deal is better than a bad deal – and it’s also better than a Corbyn government, says the Daily Telegraph in its editorial this morning, in which the paper says that if Labour oust the Tories, Britain would ‘become an inward-looking, statist, high-taxing country that would scare away international investors’. The ‘historic opportunity’ gifted by Britain’s departure from the EU would ‘be rendered nugatory’ under Corbyn, whose plan for government is a ‘recipe for impoverishing the nation’. The claims of the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, that PFI contracts can be binned with equanimity are for the birds’, the paper says. And for all Labour’s claims that the railways would be renationalised for the sake of consumers, the real motivation is merely ideologically. ‘So when Mr Corbyn claims the Government’s handling of Brexit will harm the economy’, he should be reminded of ’the damage a Left-wing Labour government would inflict’ on the country, the Telegraph concludes.
But if the Tories aren’t careful, their disunity could project Corbyn into Downing Street.
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