Michael Gove

Tory leadership contenders are promoting a host of fantasy Brexit ideas. Here are five of their unicorns that need slaying.

Gove and Hammond’s spat over food tariffs tells us two things: government still doesn’t know what Brexit means; and we’re better off in EU.

Pro-Brexit ministers are at loggerheads over no-deal tariffs. Fox wants to slash and burn, Gove wants farmers protected. Neither is good.

Influential minister made false case against staying in bloc. But the risks he inaccurately flagged do apply to May’s deal he’s supporting.

He backed PM’s miserable deal, then refused to become Brexit secretary, failed to resign and now wants to change the deal. Has he no shame?

Leaked PR doc reveals all is not running to plan, and government want to bury fact May’s deal would be much worse than current situation.

Post-Brexit strategy would put English farmers on back foot and open UK to global agri-giants. This won’t help deliver a “green Brexit”.

Brexiter wants PM to reach a Chequers-style deal, then kick her out, rip up her deal and go for an even harder Brexit.

May’s critics rightly want to chuck Chequers. But their alternatives don’t stack up. They can’t stop peddling snake oil.

May’s meetings with Sturgeon are becoming more tedious than a bad show on the Edinburgh Fringe. But Brexit impact on Scotland is no joke.

Gove is toying with UK staying in EEA post Brexit. As with all his schemes, it’s more to do with advancing his interests than the UK’s.

Tory Brexiters have forced May to back down. But while they can wreck the party, there is no majority for a hard Brexit in parliament.