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If this story is correct the PM is prepared for business to implement no-deal contingency plans and leave the UK, and people and business to suffer ongoing anxieties, in the mistaken belief threatening no-deal provides negotiating leverage thesun.co.uk/news/brexit/82…
There is not the slightest piece of evidence the UK has yet obtained a single advantage by not ruling out no-deal. Mostly because international negotiations are about trying to find a landing zone rather than threatening walkouts. Also the EU never found the threat credible
Another odd story - that the UK want to write into the Withdrawal Agreement that the UK will follow EU rules in the backstop - with some role for the NI assembly. Not sure the ERG will be delighted with following all EUY rules in a permanent backstop politico.eu/article/mays-b…
Put it another way, I'm not sure we've made much progress. We're still talking about delaying Brexit, no-deal, or attacking key EU red lines. Nobody is talking (again!) about what can practically be done. Though @anandMenon1 spots a fragment of hope
I still the most likely outcome will be Brexit on something close to the PM's deal, but which almost all MPs will immediately denounce as a bad deal that they were forced to support. Setting up more years of bickering.
MPs need to own Brexit or disown it.
MPs need to own Brexit or disown it.
