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Is it the parties that have failed us or our Governance? Some of the lessons of the Chilcot inquiry have some striking relevance to the handling of Brexit. In particular the secretive way decisions were made circumventing cabinet processes relying purely on spads 1/
The lack of concrete objectives - we didn't have a realistic proposal - and over-optimistic planning assumptions (e.g. we'll roll-over all 40 trade deals no problem, we'll sign a deal tomorrow). The sidelining of expertise that challenged muddled thinking (Ivan Rogers). 2/
Chilcot's final admonition is that "influence is not an end in itself." We might add nor is sovereignty. We need a clear-eyed assessment of where the UK can gain from bringing back powers from Brussels and what the true risks in ceding them would be. ends/
