The Prime Minister, despite her personal unionism, is setting a course for stormy constitutional waters. It will fall to her successors to navigate them.
If there’s to be no border in Ireland, and Britain is to leave the Customs Union and Single Market, it follows that there must be a customs border on the Irish Sea.
“Normally he stands up and asks me to sign a blank cheque, I know he likes Czechs but really…”, the Prime Minister replies.
The Prime Minister told one good joke and then bored her way to victory.
The newspapers can’t be blamed for reporting that Britain won’t be “plunged into a Mad Max-style world” – his own department issued the quote in advance.
The UK does not intend to undercut or undermine “our closest friends and allies”, the Brexit Secretary says,
For all its compromises and ambiguities, it is the only practicable means to hand of giving the province something approaching normalcy.
When ministers meet at Chequers this week, they must find a solution to the seemingly intractable question of whether to align or diverge from the EU.
The Mayor should take the responsibility to be a unifying figure with a positive message – not just churn out doom-laden predictions.
But a vote on some form of customs union is coming. Might it become a confidence issue?
She says that this wouldn’t be “to the benefits of my consitituents in Edinburgh or in the country as it is.”
The Shadow Foreign Secretary seeks to fend off the claim that the party’s leadership is unwilling to listen to its pro-Remain members.
“We think that the future relationship with Britain needs to be about more than trade and economics”.
We must find our identity in modern Britain; break away from obstructive stereotypes; source authentic leaders who connect with voters; become the party of opportunity; and never style ourselves as an alternative to “chaos”.