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TORIES were at each others’ throats over membership of the EU yesterday as David Cameron blustered that Brussels’s offer of an “emergency brake” on benefits was “not good enough.”
The PM warned EU chiefs that if they couldn’t come up with a better offer he might consider delaying the referendum, possibly until after the summer holidays.
But as rival Conservatives lined up behind the In and Out causes, few indicated that the PM’s benefit-busting braggadocio would affect their vote one way or the other.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
