May needs to demonstrate that Whitehall is prepared – deal or no deal. Crossing one’s fingers and hoping for transition is not an alternative, or shouldn’t be.
One senior official put it to me starkly: “We should ask a question of the team – are you ready to fight another election in two years? If the answer is yes, then it’s a lie.”
It backed nationalisation in the ’40s. It opposed Thatcher’s economic policy in the ’80s. It supported the Euro in the ’90s. And now it wants Single Market membership.
First, that Leave had won dishonestly. Second, that the country had become more racist. Third, that the 52 per cent had wrecked the economy.
Conservative MPs should get wise to Osborne’s attempt to bluff, panic and stampede them into backing Single Market membership – and no proper migration control.
May has a campaign for the country. She must complement it, as best she can, with one for you and your family.
For the most part, those in SW1 don’t actually set out to deceive the public. The trouble is – they deceive themselves.
Rail liberalisation is being extended into the EEA agreement: the Fourth Railway Package is set to increase competition further.
His great achievement two years ago was to sever the head off the Liberal Democrat snake – and most of the body too. Now he must defang it again.
It makes spending commitments which exceed the amounts it budgets to spend. Those escalating commitments…will approach E250 billion by the time we leave.
If this odd couple succeed, the millionaire gets to claim he made Brexit happen and the paper gets to imply that Brexit is illegitimate.
It’s a day to think of the people who dreamed of it and the people who dreaded it alike. And to embrace the renewal of our democracy.
While they seek a silver bullet to keep us in the EU, the rest of the world is moving on.
It was this very same attitude on the part of the EU that caused us to vote Leave in the first place.
A third of 2014 Yes voters supported Leave last year. There is an opportunity to split them away from Scottish secessionism.