Brexit means we could have a sales tax instead.
“I had to make that speech today…and if the Prime Minister can’t live with that, I have to respect her right to sack me.”
She argues that by 2019 the people might have changed their minds.
“It is unwise” he warns, and “would deepen our divisions”.
The Northern Irish Secretary’s options are limited: the root of this crisis is personality rather than policy, and only the DUP can solve it.
The “People’s Army” is an unpopular party and an unattractive brand. They always have been, and Brexit has changed nothing.
The Chancellor says that he believes a deal will be struck with the EU – but that we won’t simply “slink away” if it isn’t.
The Government appears bumbling, directionless and out-of-ideas before Article 50 has even been triggered.
They’ve fumbled a strong unionist position into a serious setback. Let it at least provoke a long-overdue shake-up in capital-U Unionist thinking.
Having a second referendum in the middle of the Brexit negotiations would be very difficult, and it will take time to build the next, very different ‘No’ campaign.
There are many different parts to the solution, and Policy Exchange’s Housing and Urban Regeneration Unit plans to find them.
Juncker has presented MEPs with five options, but the responses show how hard Brussels politicians will find it to change their attitudes.
It is clear that some peers are not so much focused on Parliamentary sovereignty as on finding a backdoor way to thwart and reverse the referendum result.