Tinfoil prat

EX-CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond has had a rapid and richly deserved fall from grace.

He was always a disastrous choice, paralysed by caution and with a bizarre capacity for staggeringly crass outbursts.

Even he has excelled himself by ­promoting a famously debunked conspiracy theory about Brexit.

Remainer Hammond seriously claims Boris Johnson is “backed by speculators who have bet billions on a hard Brexit”. This smear has zero evidence. Remain-backing City experts and even former ­Labour advisers say it makes no sense.

Not only that, but Boris badly wants a deal. No Deal is just the fallback.

This goes beyond Hammond’s usual rubbish. Here is a former statesman so deranged by Brexit that he will use baseless fiction to tarnish the leader of the party he represented for decades.

In July he was running the nation’s finances. Now he is a broken backbencher, with no party, in a tinfoil hat.

His successor is very different.

Sajid Javid’s surprise announcement of a thumping rise to the Living Wage will be great news for four million low-paid workers, many of them Sun readers.

With the age threshold lowered from 25 to 21, it’s a bonus for millennials too.

Firms will fret about extra costs. That’s a minor worry next to the nightmarish burdens of a Corbyn Government. If anything we’d bring the rise in faster.

The Sun urged Boris to pick a dynamic Chancellor after three years of Hammond. And Saj is off to a flier.

Keep IS out

BRITAIN must not let 600 IS family members back home.

We have every sympathy for the children stranded in Syrian camps. They are innocent.

The widows of IS terrorists are not. They enabled or promoted the most wicked ideology since Nazism.

They abandoned the UK and would happily destroy it. If Shamima Begum is typical, their only regret is that IS lost.

Why should taxpayers foot the bill to return them to Western comfort, to clothe and feed them in prison or police them 24/7 to ensure they pose no risk?

Home Secretary Priti Patel is right to fight it.

Raging Twits

WE applaud Culture Secretary Nicky ­Morgan’s plan for a law to force Twitter and others to ban bullies. The site is a swamp.

But when MPs are so obnoxious on there is it any wonder voters pile in too?

Nothing has done more than Twitter to wreck our politics. It long ago turned moderate MPs like Labour’s David Lammy into gibbering, abusive fools.

They convince themselves Twitter represents the national conversation — and are stunned when they discover to their cost where public opinion really is.

Parliament would be in a far better state if MPs ditched it and focused on real life.

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