We don’t claim that the EU would accept it – but neither will the Commission nor the 27 necessarily accept the Prime Minister’s new plan.
The first extract from the fullest draft of the proposals that were put together by the Department for Exiting the European Union – published today on ConservativeHome.
The President, and the wider rise of right-wing populism around the world, offers us some examples of what to do – and what not to do.
His attack on the Brexiteers as Romantics runs the risk of dismissing the EU referendum as a fraud.
The MoD should use the opportunity of Brexit to reflect on whether EU competition rules should continue to apply to procurement.
Number 10’s plan was summarised in the statement released after Chequers. The Ministers’ was contained in DexEU’s draft of the White Paper.
Davis was not alone in being kept in the dark – ministers in various departments have been wrongly left out of Brexit planning done by their own civil servants.
This is not all about him. It is about the kind of country which the UK is going to become.
After Davis quit, a vote of confidence in May’s leadership hung in the balance. Now it’s set to happen – and events are creating their own momentum.
No clearer signal could be sent that the Haltemprice and Howden MP is out on his own. But the promotion will lose Raab some friends even as it delivers a new gain in status.
The question this morning is whether Johnson, who fundamentally disagrees with May’s new Brexit policy no less, will also go – along with other Cabinet dissenters.
They risk a reputation of betraying the largest vote in British history.
And a leader with a mandate from Welsh members requires more recognition.
The tension can be seen in the way the Prime Minister’s sensible effort at Chequers clashes with the deeply-seated values of many in the Party’s grassroots.