The Brexit Secretary has taken control of the Government’s dealings with Grieve – for the moment, anyway. Watch for further twists and turns.
Long-standing Leavers, who stood out for personal conviction against the Party leadership, should understand Remainers who are now in the same position.
Grieve may have backed off yesterday, but the Government backed down. May now risks losing control of her Brexit policy altogether.
“When [it] is able to set out an achievable, clearly defined path…it should go to the people, once again, to seek their confirmation.”
By cramping the room for no deal, it seeks to send the Prime Minister naked into the negotiation chamber.
If overcome by the belief that Putin bought the referendum, our advice is to lie down in a dark room until the feeling goes away.
It’s about neither the principle nor the form of Brexit. Its purpose is to make leaving orderly. MPs should effect it this week.
It is impossible to see today’s agreement as anything more than a fudge from which no-one emerges stronger.
Like unhappy Love Island contestants, May and Davis may kiss and make up today, but recoupling is in the air – with unknowable consequences for the Prime Minister’s leadership, the Government and Brexit itself.
This is almost exactly the same panel that gave the Prime Minister a seven-out-of-ten thumbs-up following December’s summit.