We now have the most amazing opportunity to deliver an emphatic victory over Corbyn’s extremists – and achieve Brexit into the bargain.
She points to the opportunities to imitate New Zealand agriculture, and to crack down on big businesses which evade tax.
For all the chatter about the Customs Union, leaving the EU in full is still on course. But May’s bungled election has raised the chances of a disorderly outcome.
There are only five days to go until the start of the Brexit negotiations. May cannot afford to make a reshuffle mess of a department from which she has now lost two Ministers.
The absence of tariffs comes last, not first. They are the end-point of a successful negotiation, not its starting-point. They are the icing on the cake.
Such a deal would, on balance, be better than Most Favoured Nation Status. But MFN would be better than a bad deal – and giving up on regaining control of our borders.
The arguments are more finely balanced than in the case of the Single Market, but maintaining the present arrangement would blunt the point of Brexit.
Two new ConHome columns begin tomorrow.
Whatever one’s view of Cameron’s former head of strategy, he cannot simply be written off as some crusty reactionary.
It is not a “renegotiation” at all, since there is no treaty reform – a point President Hollande was quick to make yesterday.
Christopher Howarth is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe. Prior to Open Europe he worked as a… Read more »
Christopher Howarth is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe. Prior to Open Europe he worked as a… Read more »
Christopher Howarth is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe. Prior to Open Europe he worked as… Read more »
Christopher Howarth is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe. Prior to Open Europe he worked as… Read more »
Christopher Howarth is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe. Prior to Open Europe he worked as… Read more »