What the papers say: A customs union is the least worst Brexit option

Theresa May has been condemned for her failure to stick up for the NHS during her conversation with Donald Trump last night. The criticism comes after Trump tweeted to say Britain’s National Health Service was ‘going broke and not working’. But while we can be rightly proud of the NHS, we shouldn’t be blind to its problems, says the Daily Telegraph. Politicians have queued up to defend the institution and talk of ‘how much they love it’. ‘Only in Britain is it necessary to fetishise the way we deliver health care’, argues the Telegraph. Nigel Farage is right then to say that the ‘NHS is the nearest thing we have to a national religion’, and this thought goes some way to explain why Trump’s criticism is being treated as a ‘heresy’. Yet whether we like it or not, Trump is, at least party, right: ‘the NHS is going broke, or at least it does not have enough money to function properly – something even most of the Cabinet seems to agree on’.