The irony is that Hammond is appallingly placed to persuade voters that No Deal really does carry risks.
Plus: Norcott and Brandreth triumph at Edinburgh. Turnbull and Dutton circle in Australia. And: Corbyn’s shoddy copy of the Trump playbook.
“Our laws will be on the statute book, the staff will be in place, the teams will be in post, and our institutions will be ready for Brexit.”
Although no longer a superpower, our country remains one of the most influential countries on the planet.
Also: Corbyn tries to rally support with Scottish tour; Clark in Dublin to keep Ulster’s lights on during no-deal Brexit; and huge scale of Scottish deficit revealed.
What do our cliché-ridden rulers propose? Ending plastic cups, gender quotas for boardrooms and banning Tony the Tiger.
Europe has no Madisons to make the case for federalism, while the Leavers patronise us by pretending that leaving is without risk.
Have no doubt about it: we’re leaving. But if we want to put the country back together, we must now keep some perspective.
That it suits both former purple donors and ultra-committed Remainers to claim otherwise doesn’t make it true.
Our new Export Strategy, which I am launching today, will put in place the tools that businesses have told us they need to help them on their journey.
People may be switching off when they hear negative stories about him, in the same way that Americans ignored Hillary Clinton’s warnings about Trump.
We must turn our departure into a spur for bold domestic reform, not allow it to become this generation’s Black Wednesday.
The Tories have been ahead only once since the summit, though the shift away from them has flattened out.
Tacking towards the devocrat consensus and positioning for a pact with Plaid seems to be the preferred option, but it looks like a tactical cul-de-sac.
Let’s accept we will be far better off leaving with a Canadian-style free trade agreement – or, failing that, WTO terms.