After his own difficult party conference the week before, Jeremy Corbyn was pictured walking in Northumberland with his wife as the Tories got under way in Birmingham. The hard Brexit lines looked like a pitch for Ukip votes. Former minister Nick Herbert warned of the dangers of “Brexit fundamentalism” while former education secretary Nicky Morgan said that hard Brexit would encourage people “to say things about their fellow citizens that promote intolerance and bigotry”. The party conference season south of the border is over (the pro-EU SNP will meet in Glasgow this week). Tories have been sent back to their constituencies with simple hard Brexit messages.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2016 06:22 UTC