Having attacked EEA membership as a bad deal during the referendum, they now pretend it is a good idea in the hope of preventing Brexit.
This is because in order to maximise opportunities, we must have control over our tariff schedules and our domestic regulation.
She points to the opportunities to imitate New Zealand agriculture, and to crack down on big businesses which evade tax.
Our current, paper-based system loses billions in missed customs duties and manpower-intensive controls. Hammond is right to see what new technology can do.
Detoxifying the Party never meant moving to the left – this year’s manifesto was well to the left economically of anything we advocated.
The news is not all bad for supporters of Leave. But a weakened Government needs third party support to deliver not so much a Soft or Hard Brexit as a clean one.
His Mansion House speech offered an opportunity to shift the tone of Brexit policy towards openness, liberalism, free trade and responsible capitalism.
The Chancellor says “yes” when Marr asks if “we’re definitely leaving the EU”, and provides some clarification.
For all the chatter about the Customs Union, leaving the EU in full is still on course. But May’s bungled election has raised the chances of a disorderly outcome.
We would remain bound by the EU’s protectionist tariff structure, and have our trade agreements determined by institutions on which we were not represented.
She cannot be a stationary establishment figure when faced with the restless mood of the voting public. She must move forwards – or we risk a 1997-style wipeout.
He also insists that the Government is pursuing the “same strategic policy” over Brexit as it was before the election.
A joint response to our series on WTO by a former Director-General of that organisation and a former Australian Ambassador to it – via Policy Exchange.
The Union has already signed up to an FTA) with Canada. Surely we should be able to agree a similar deal for the UK – if not one substantially deeper.