How to defeat democracy.

Mr Hammond, like all hard-line Remainers, has simply never accepted the democratic mandate given to the government to leave the EU.   

He also has never accepted that he, like 80% of the current intake of the House of Commons, was elected on a manifesto that said it would deliver Leave.   

Furthermore he hasn’t accepted that MPs themselves set the law which set two different departure dates.  All that means nothing to him.   

And now he even rubbishes his own political party and their internal democratic system of electing a new leader by saying he may not support the new leader that emerges from the two candidates that Conservative MPs themselves presented to the party as their two options.  

The sooner that Mr Hammond and his ilk are recognised as the political failures they have become the better.