Will Brexiters be boiled like toads at Chequers?
Theresa May seems to want her Cabinet to agree a single market for goods. That will involve lots of concessions on Brexiters’ red lines.
May has her Withdrawal Act… but road ahead is no easier...
The 11-month hard slog in Parliament added important details to Act. And there are plenty of Brexit elephant traps ahead.
Freight, fruit and flights all frustrated. Thanks Brexiters!
Two years after the referendum, and nothing is any clearer - except that uncertainty is hitting our industries hard.
EU warns of ‘no deal’ and ‘no transition’ either
With “no substantial progress” in talks, especially on Irish border, EU is stepping up work on no-deal Brexit. This would be catastrophic.
About that ‘backstop’, PM. It ain’t gonna work
Brussels’ forensic analysis of PM’s temporary fix to customs and Irish border has found it full of holes. MPs need to tell her what to do.
PM will retreat 4 more times before her ‘backstop’ works
May avoided confrontation with Davis by putting an unrealistic end-2021 timetable on her backstop. She’ll get confrontation with EU instead.
We could well end up with perpetual CRAP
Theresa May wants a time-limited Customs and Regulatory Alignment Period (CRAP). The EU will insist it’s indefinite. How miserable.
Max Fac is really Max Fantasy
The government’s indecision on a customs model will cost UK business far more than a mere £20bn.
Brexiters bank on early Brexit showdown. It could backfire
Keep June free - May’s bringing her Withdrawal Bill to the Commons. That means confronting complex home truths on her botched Brexit plan.
In Gove we distrust
The environment secretary lives in a Brexit fantasyland where the Union with Scotland is secure and migrants are welcomed with open arms.
People are taking Jacob Rees-Mogg far too seriously
Arch-Brexiter and his ERG posse has little effect on May’s policy. But more he trashes PM’s Brexit in media, more public will dislike deal.
May set for Irish border defeat in Lords
Peers vote tomorrow on stopping border controls in Ireland. They are right to do so. We must not throw Northern Ireland under a bus.