The heat felt by Tory Remainers from the party’s Brextremist grass roots is no more intense than in Beaconsfield, backyard of “Ode to Joy” hummer Dominic Grieve. How badly the pro-Remain former attorney general has fallen out with his local party may be judged by the constituency association inviting to speak, on 14 March, one Andrew Bridgen, a hardline no-deal quitter who sleeps under a Union Jack bedspread and makes Nigel Farage look a dispassionate Leaver. Burly Leicestershire MP Bridgen isn’t expecting his Westminster enemy within to attend. Grieve risks being dumped, unless he retires.
The cost of the DUP protection racket is poised to soar for Theresa May in the bung parliament if she survives Brexit. The two-year, £1bn deal to keep the Tories in power is up for renegotiation this summer and Northern Ireland’s bowler-hatted extortionists will demand a higher price, having defeated Labour’s attempted no-confidence vote. My snout with the sash yelped that their opening gambit will be up to £8bn. The Orangemen want their Tory dividend.
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