Also: Scottish Conservatives keep up the pressure over fishing and the backstop; Plaid set out new front bench; and Bradley empowers Northern Irish civil service.
Ireland risks a hard border, imposed on it by the rest of the EU, if a way isn’t found by all parties of climbing off the self-contradictory backstop clauses.
There has been agreement about its status between the UK and Spain – contrary to Remain warnings during and since the referendum.
The significance of the Northern Ireland SpAd’s tweet lies less in its content than its author – and that it has been issued at all.
The British Government has repeatedly and recently confirmed that abortion law has long been a devolved matter, and it should stay that way.
“The Irish certainly won’t. The British certainly won’t. So unless the EU Army plans to march in and build it, surely it can never happen?”
The only potential escape lane from a breakdown in the negotiation and No Deal gridlock is marked “to Canada”.
Cox’s intervention at May’s meeting of senior Cabinet ministers last week to discuss Brexit plans turned out to be crucial.
It isn’t just pro-Brexit MPs who should be watching the Prime Minister carefully. It’s pro-Union ones: in other words, all of them.
Brexit won’t be the most important factor shaping our growth over the next decade or so, whether we leave with an agreement or without one.
It will also boost our economy and allow businesses to create new, modern jobs in an exciting growth sector.
It doesn’t support the EU and Irish Government narratives that are being pushed as part of the Brexit negotiations.