We shouldn’t be glued as a vassal state to a declining European market.
And, late in the day, the Prime Minister bows to our advice, and rushes on to Marr, today, to make the case for her new proposals.
British politicians are negotiating as if it were 410 AD, and still the Roman province of Britannia, asking permission to leave instead of flourishing a mandate to do so.
The Prime Minister once promised that: “We are not leaving only to return to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. That’s not going to happen.”
The twenty-first century Division will have more strings to its bow than simply armoured vehicles, strike brigades, and air assault capabilities.
As a split in the Conservative Party finally threatens for real, May must explain why and when she backed off mutual recognition.
UK courts will no longer be able to appeal to the ECJ, and the UK Supreme Court will be the highest legal authority in the land.
Ministers and others are mulling whether checks already in place across the Irish Sea could be extended.
We don’t claim that the EU would accept it – but neither will the Commission nor the 27 necessarily accept the Prime Minister’s new plan.
The first extract from the fullest draft of the proposals that were put together by the Department for Exiting the European Union – published today on ConservativeHome.
The tension can be seen in the way the Prime Minister’s sensible effort at Chequers clashes with the deeply-seated values of many in the Party’s grassroots.
The President, and the wider rise of right-wing populism around the world, offers us some examples of what to do – and what not to do.
We British often like a good compromise. This would be the wrong one.