17 OCTOBER 2019 • 10:00PM
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| European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker greets British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the European Commission Representation on September 16, 2019 in Luxembourg. CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES EUROPE |
The new Brexit deal is a personal triumph for Boris Johnson. In the last few weeks, his opponents have questioned his abilities and his motives: he doesn’t want a deal, they said, and he couldn’t get one if he did. But yesterday Mr Johnson pulled off the allegedly impossible. This new deal isn’t 100 per cent perfect, but the Prime Minister has had to negotiate with a minority government, a Remainer Parliament and with the Benn Act hanging over his head – so what he got, against the odds, is near miraculous.
It is time for his party to rally around him. It is time for MPs to put aside pride and partisanship, compromise where necessary and deliver the Brexit they promised at the last election....
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/10/17/mps-must-put-aside-pride-partisanship-back-boris-johnsons-brexit/
