Truthfully I don’t fully understand what follows except that I do know it is causing concern among Tory MP rebels and exiles - whose votes @BorisJohnson needs if he is to stand any chance of getting his deal through parliament. These rebels believe the reason @SteveBakerHW...
was looking so chipper on my show last night, and why the ERG is in general positive about @BorisJohnson’s Brexit offer, is not because they are showing the remorseless pragmatism Baker claims but because they have been told the Withdrawal Agreement Bill has been...
altered to legislate for the immediate primacy of UK law over European law, which has been one of the Brexit Spartans’ main demands. However on the face of it this would be contrary to the spirit and letter of the Withdrawal Agreement reached with the EU. Now the important...
point is not that this is definitely happening. It is that Tory rebels, the Gaukeward Squad, fear it is happening. As one told me “I would want to understand the implications before supporting a deal”. EU leaders may also want to understand it before agreeing a deal!
On further inspection, what seems to be happening is that the automatic reassertion of the primacy of EU law during the implementation period would be switched off, so UK could in effect ignore any new EU laws that are passed during transition to full exit from EU. This would...
drive a coach and horses through the Withdrawal Agreement, as I mentioned. So would be a problem for both EU leaders and for rebel Tory MPs - though it would delight the Brexit Spartans. Details attached. 
In further news from Sparta, the Spartan supplicants fear @BorisJohnson does not have the time or space to grant them what they regard as their bare minimum, which is the immediate return of the primacy of UK law. So maybe the Gaukeward Squad have less to fear than they believe
