Every issue Tory Brexiteers said they would stand firm on is now being given up. The result will be electoral punishment

What on earth has happened to the Eurosceptics in Theresa May’s cabinet? In what can only be called the ultimate sell-out, these once-brave men and women who backed the Leave campaign and have been seen as the champions of the 17.4m people who voted for Brexit have collapsed like a row of dominoes.

Over the course of the last few months we have seen these senior politicians shift their position significantly on virtually every important issue. For example, once they balked at the idea of a transition deal. Yet now, they seem happy to accept that we should be locked into such an arrangement for at least two years and probably (I am willing to bet) up until the next general election, which is scheduled for 2022.

And whereas previously they said that any future jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice would be unacceptable, now they are prepared to accept its authority at least for the duration of a transition deal and maybe even longer.

Perhaps most surprisingly of all, the sell-outs described above now seem willing to accept that Britain should give a gargantuan sum of money – potentially £40 billion – to the European Union, allegedly to gain some sort of tariff free access to the single market. It is simply monstrous that these funds, which could and should be spent constructively in the UK, are instead being made ready to hand over to Brussels. Isn’t this nothing more than a filthy bribe?