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Brexit is unravelling fast when plans are prepared for the Army to deliver emergency food, fuel and medicines should we crash out of the European Union without a deal.

We do not want to see soldiers at ports and delivering supplies in trucks and helicopters.

The threat of this should be a warning to squabbling politicians to redouble their efforts to find a way out of this mess.

Their arrogant insistence that it is their way or no way is doing us no favours. We need compromise and British common sense.

Our nation’s prosperity and security are of paramount importance, not who wins some ideological game.

Theresa May’s hapless Government is unforgivably incompetent.

The Tories under her feeble leadership are divided and clueless as next March’s intended departure looms into view.

It’s time they shaped up or shipped out.

Meg dad twist

The Duchess of Sussex’s father confession that he used drugs while bringing up his daughter is another twist in an increasingly agonised family saga.

Meghan Markle’s closest relatives appear to be visibly buckling under the strain of her marrying into an old British institution.

Her apparently estranged dad fears he might never see any grandchildren, which pulls at

our heartstrings.

Would it be too much to expect a reassuring telephone call or even a visit with her new husband to an ageing, bewildered parent?

Happy families are sustained when every grown-up involved cares about the others.

Tour de force

British Tour de France winners are suddenly like buses – you wait 109 years then three come along together.

Congratulations to Geraint Thomas for emulating Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome to make it six titles in seven races for the world’s fastest nation on two cycle wheels.