Rishi Sunak warned ‘begin speaking up Brexit’ or Tories face election collapse

The Prime Minister has been warned he should begin speaking up the positives of Brexit Britain once more or face election catastrophe.

With two polls revealing the Tories are heading for an election wipeout with doubtlessly lower than 100 seats, determined Conservative MPs have warned that Mr Sunak has to maneuver off “the gloom and doom” agenda of Remainers and Labour.

Bassetlaw MP Brendan Clarke-Smith, who was one of many Tories to interrupt the Labour purple wall and now chairs the Blue Collar Conservative Group, advised the Daily Express: “We have gotten to recollect what received us an unlimited majority in 2019. We are the celebration of Brexit and alternative.

“We are positive about this country’s achievements and its potential especially with Brexit. We have to start talking up Brexit and Britain again and not just accept the gloom and doom narrative of the lefty Remainers.”

Polling now suggests that 40 percent believe the UK could rejoin the EU.

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Meanwhile, a Techne UK tracker poll for the Daily Express revealed only a third of 2016 Leave voters (34 percent) would vote Conservative while 44 percent of those who backed the party in 2019 have abandoned them.

Former Brexit minister now deputy chairman of European Research Group of Tory MPs David Jones was blunt in his assessment of the struggling Sunak government failing to make the positive case for Brexit.

Writing for Express.co.uk today, he warned: “Scarcely a day goes by when some prominent Europhile is not blaming Brexit for all the ills of the world and urging us to return to the orbit of Brussels.

“A couple of weeks ago, Labour’s David Lammy was proclaiming that a closer relationship with the EU would be the ‘number one priority’ of a Starmer government.

“And earlier this week my Conservative colleague Tobias Ellwood was calling for the UK to rejoin the Single Market, on the grounds that ‘Brexit has failed’.”

He went on: “The Remainers’ plan, no doubt, is to keeping pumping out this gloomy narrative until the British people decide that Brexit isn’t worth the candle and demand to return to the tender embrace of Ursula von der Leyen and Emanuel Macron.”

But he listed a string of successes together with the vaccine rollout, management over Ukraine and commerce offers pointedly including: “I’m proud of Brexit and don’t share the despondent message the Rejoiners are putting about. I know that Government ministers feel the same way, too. I just wish they’d say so more often.”

However, a Downing Street spokeswoman insisted that the Prime Minister, who supported Leave in 2016, has been speaking about the advantages of Brexit and placing them into motion.

She stated: “Just look at the long term workforce plan and some of the reform agenda in it.

“If we hadn’t left the EU, we wouldn’t have been in a position to change nurse coaching from 5 years to 4 years (due to EU guidelines).

“The Prime Minister was talking that up at the press conference last week.

“The Retained EU Law Bill (permitting the UK to eliminate EU laws) was handed with none insurrection.”

She also pointed out that the Prime Minister championed the creation of Freeports.

Among Britain’s many Brexit successes are the rapid rollout of the vaccine free from EU bureaucracy, the Trans Pacific deal with 11 of the world’s fastest growing economies, 20 enormous deals with US states for Britain’s services industry, not having to pay £80 billion to the EU bailout fund, trade deals with Australia and New Zealand, and a new mutual recognition deal with Brazil.

Recently the City of London Corporation revealed Brexit has been a huge success for financial services despite doom and gloom predictions.

Chris Hayward, policy chairman of the City of London Corporation, revealed that there are now “1000’s of additional jobs” within the City because of Brexit.

Hayward cited of the UK’s continued pull publish Brexit was WE Soda – the world’s largest producer of natural soda ash – making its debut on the London Stock Exchange. The initial public shares offer is expected to raise £645 million.

Added to that he pointed out that last month Canada’s largest asset managers, Alberta Investment Management Company, announced plans to more than double its headcount in London and invest billions into the UK as they hailed London as more of a gateway to Asia and Europe than New York.

Similar recent moves from other large global investors including $102billion Australian superannuation fund Aware Super.

In the Techne UK ballot, the Tories have been 21 factors behind Labour which would depart them with simply 84 seats whereas in a Yougov ballot yesterday they have been 25 factors behind.

Former International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, who’s being tipped to return to the Cabinet to assist save the Sunak authorities, has urged the Prime Minister to begin being optimistic once more.

He stated: “Since 2016 (the year of the EU refrendum) cumulative growth in Italy has been four percent, in Germany has been 5.5 percent, in the UK has been 6.8 percent.

“In May last year British exports to the EU were not just the highest since Brexit but since records began.

“The UK had the highest growth in any G7 country in 2021 and 2022. The eurozone is currently in recession, we are not.

“Is it not time we heard more good news talking Britain up.”

It is understood Mr Sunak is also being urged to bring in experienced Brexiteers into his Cabinet in an expected reshuffle later this month.

One name tipped “to help turn around the narrative” is trade secretary Dr Liam Fox.

A Whatsapp group of Tory MPs has also been set up to help push a more positive approach to the state of the UK and its Brexit successes.

Former Brexit Opportunities Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, a critic of the Sunak government, has also waded into the debate.

He said: “We need to cut prices by deregulating. Brexit means we could import cheaper brands from America and abolish food tariffs to make the weekly shopping basket cheaper. Such Brexit enabled policies would help deal with the cost of living crisis.

“We could also cut high cost business and employment regulations to boost the economy and make net zero rules less onerous.

“Brexit is an enabler: it is for the Government to act.”

Despite Downing Street”s claims Brexiteer MPs have believed that the Retained EU Law Bill was watered down, the government has compromised too much on Northern Ireland and the UK is getting too close to joining an EU defence pact or army.

Meanwhile, other MPs in the Red Wall fighting to hold on to the historic gains made by the Tories in 2019 are also making a similar plea.

Dudley North MP Marco Longhi, who is the British trade envoy to Brazil where the UK has struck a deal which has already increased trade with one of the world’s fastest growing economies, said his party needs to be putting the positive case for leaving the EU and its benefits.

He said: “Any narrative that talks down an economy will have consequences – sometimes it feels like some people want things to fail if you listen to their doom and gloom.

“The country voted for a positive aspirational, outward looking Great Britain when it voted for Brexit – quite the opposite of the insular and negative narratives coming from the Remainer arguments.

“Global Britain, unleashed from the shackles of the EU’s greater socialist state and its dogma and having led the way out of Covid because of it – now has a fantastic opportunity to motor ahead and lead the way in so many sectors delivering many more jobs and job security.”

Stoke North MP Jonathan Gullis additionally warned die laborious Rejoiners might see a possibility to take the UK again into the EU if the Conservative Government doesn’t begin being optimistic once more.

He stated: “With die laborious Remainers regrouping, the Government have to proceed delivering on the large advantages of Brexit.

“Contrary to the Remoaners’ speaking Britain down, our financial system has grown quicker than Germany, France, Spain and Italy total since 2020, and have signed commerce offers with Australia, New Zealand and Japan, alongside becoming a member of the CPTTP which is value a staggering £11 trillion.

“But Brexit wasn’t nearly economics. We have restored our sovereignty in order that we will management our legal guidelines and borders, giving energy again to the British folks reasonably than bureaucrats in Brussels.”