If - as it sounds - this is the beginning of the grabbing of the steering wheel to perform a u-turn and go for a Brexit Deal, what then has to happen?
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1325416374328578048
First, the House of Lords *tomorrow* needs to gut the Internal Market Bill of the offending clauses, and then the Government will have to not threaten to put the clauses back in during ping-pong.
Second, the outstanding issues in the negotiations - not least on fishing, Level Playing Field and especially on governance need to be hammered out.
Third, this all has to be framed somehow like Johnson is the winner. Make it look too much like he isn't and he'll react emotionally, and his backbenchers will cry foul.
Fourth, the Tory comms machine is going to have to then swing into action *very quickly* to make it seem the EU nevertheless gave the UK a bad deal, so as the EU rather than UK, is to blame for border chaos in January.
The chances all this goes smoothly, and calm and level headedness prevail from Johnson and Number 10... I am still not certain
But maybe Johnson ate more humble pie this weekend than I had thought
/ends
But maybe Johnson ate more humble pie this weekend than I had thought
/ends
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