EU should only give more time if we prepare for EU elections
Other 27 countries will run big risk if we don’t keep open option of holding European elections. But they shouldn’t insist on anything else.
Strasbourg drama hasn’t changed deal. MPs must vote it down...
Eleventh-hour spectacle shouldn’t impress MPs. May is still nowhere close to changes Brexiters want, or even what she promised.
UK is being humiliated… by the Brexiters
Brexiters are quick to adopt the “humiliation” narrative. They are the ones that have put this country in an impossible position.
Chequers dead in Salzburg. How long to People’s Vote u-turn?...
PM wavered on “my deal or no deal” line at summit. A flip-flop on Irish border seems in the offing. Might a People’s Vote be next?
Real story is PM’s incompetence not EU intransigence
May created smokescreen to hide her failure to make progress on Brexit talks at summit by accusing fellow leaders of putting lives at risk.
EU lovebomb shows we can change our mind
Macron, Tusk and Juncker have said in past week that we can stay in EU if we wish. Now we just have to convince people it’s a good idea.
Irish ideologies making May’s Brexit impossible
The PM’s delicate house of cards has been blasted by DUP. Time to face facts: a workable deal cannot be negotiated as Irish tensions boil.
Look at all May’s U-turns. There is no good Brexit deal
With one flip-flop after another, PM’s deal with EU leaders is far cry from bullish Lancaster House vision. Here’s our definitive run-down.
It’s Brexit not the EU that’s punishing us
Whoever leaked PM’s dinner with Juncker is playing into Brexiters’ hands. It’s actually Brexit’s consequences that are damaging.
May’s transition won’t quite do trick, even if she gets one...
PM dashed to Brussels because she’s desperate for transition. But a deal will be too short and too uncertain to stop relocations.
May won’t get Merkel’s help in breaking deadlock
Brexiters thought Berlin would help us get good deal because it was desperate to sell us BMWs. It’s actually taking a very tough line.
The state of Juncker
Europhobes have predictably over-reacted to the European Commission president’s speech; it was a demonstration of his impotence rather than his power.