Rather than wasting time with forays into positive discrimination, the Conservatives should weight the merits of various forms of increased flexibility at work.
Since she might not get an acceptable agreement, or indeed any at all, the Government must strain to get Ready for Day One, not Ready for Day 730.
Asked about his “sabotage” amendment, the peer formerly known as Douglas Hogg admits negotiating with the Labour front bench on the topic.
“They want to know when they are going to get Brexit, when it will be delivered, and when it will be done”.
But, he adds, “I’m not going to gainsay what the Lords will produce”, and “the Lords are just as important an element in this as the Commons”.
…but that now, “We might as well have not done the whole negotiation”.
The Brexit Secretary has taken control of the Government’s dealings with Grieve – for the moment, anyway. Watch for further twists and turns.
They assume that no deal would be a disaster, but in fact the £40 billion we’re set to pay the EU could be a real boost to the British economy.
Grieve may have backed off yesterday, but the Government backed down. May now risks losing control of her Brexit policy altogether.
By cramping the room for no deal, it seeks to send the Prime Minister naked into the negotiation chamber.
The referendum transferred from MPs themselves the decision as to whether to remain in or leave the EU and – with it, to regain our freedom to make our own laws.
Extreme Remainers have inadvertently invented the Chaos Bonkers Brexit Gambit.