• FIFTEEN months ago I voted against triggering Article 50. I did so because I believed it was wrong to set the clock on negotiations before the government’s basic position was agreed.

Fifteen months later, the government is mired in total chaos and division. The fallacies that guide Brexiteers have been obvious to many from the beginning, and yet the prime minister has sought to placate them throughout.

Though it is tempting to focus on the resignations of “reluctant conscripts” such as David Davis, her two years of fudged resolutions have had far-reaching implications for the country.

By obsessing over the divisions in her Conservative Party, Theresa May has paved the way for British business to consider their futures.

Following the threats of Airbus and Philips, Jaguar Land Rover now says its £80billion United Kingdom investment plan may be scrapped in the eventuality of a hard Brexit.

At what point do the architects of this shambles admit that the so-called “Project Fear” is fast becoming a reality?

Every job and every penny of household income lost will be the responsibility of a prime minister who chose the ideological few in her own ranks over the best interests of the country.

In 2015 David Cameron offered the country a “simple and inescapable choice”.

It was between “stability and strong government” with the Conservative Party or “chaos with Ed Miliband”. Two years later his successor also offered a “strong and stable” government or risk of “a coalition of chaos”, led by Jeremy Corbyn.

Building upon their record of stagnant wages, record homelessness and the decimation of public services, the Conservatives are now facing up to a Brexit disaster of their own making.

They must not be allowed to get away with it.

TULIP SIDDIQ MP
Labour, Hampstead & Kilburn