He has secured a ‘mini-deal’ of the sort we were once told Brussels would not countenance – but there is room in the detail for a choir of devils.
He replies that they will be “working alongside EU officials…UK officials will be in the lead there.”
Surely they have seen enough zombie films to know that pumping yet more bullets into a zombie doesn’t work. Fresh tactics, not ‘more powers’, are needed.
This account of three and a half years as a special adviser confirms how trivial and transitory the role can be.
Put your questions to the Eurosceptic firebrand, former Labour MP and newly-appointed Baroness.
Creating temporary arrangements around fishing and other areas may not be ideal, but it is a better option than the prospect of no deal.
The Scottish leader has always tried to temper expectations about the country’s fight with Covid. This could pay off in an independence referendum.
Also: true scale of the Irish Protocol’s impact on commerce, and Stormont’s ‘rank incompetence’, show how Ulster unionism needs a refresh.
The Foreign Secretary is quizzed on whether the Government will bow to US pressure to amend the UKInternal Market Bill.
The different administrations are all in different places with increasing bad blood between them. Also, devosceptics look set to win seats in Wales.
Also: another miserable week in Government for the SNP; the deep damage of the Irish Protocol grow clearer by the day; and more.
In 2014 the rules were almost designed to maximise the independence vote. This time London must take the question much more seriously.
The first of a ConHome series this week on Boris Johnson’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.