“The divisions of the referendum need to be consigned to the past. Now is the time to…lead our country to a future of freedom, success, and prosperity.”
“The truth is that the Treasury is more often wrong than right. And the same goes for the OBR.”
“No-one knows what would happen if this deal doesn’t pass. It would open the door to more division and more uncertainty, with all the risks that will entail.”
“So I will take this deal back to the House of Commons confident we have achieved the best deal available.”
“I will be campaigning with my heart and soul to win that vote and to deliver this Brexit deal, for the good of our United Kingdom and all of our people.”
A Brexiteer backbencher and former minister, who has not yet signalled how he intends to vote on the deal, has been knighted.
That said, there was more backing for her from her party than some of today’s headlines suggest.
Beefed up to 26 pages (from seven), the Prime Minister hopes it will be enough to reassure rebellious MPs.
“And it does so while protecting jobs, protecting our security and protecting the integrity of the United Kingdom.”
“There’s a lot of focus on women in boardrooms…But this is not the place where business is being re-imagined.”
Two seats held by the Liberal Democrats and one held by Labour form the latest tranche of Tory targets.
“That agreement is a good one for the UK. It fulfils the wishes of the British people as expressed in the 2016 referendum.”
It can’t have been Parliament’s intention to allow Northern Ireland to form part of a separate customs territory to Great Britain for any purpose.
Article 20 says that the backstop will only ‘cease to apply’ if ‘the Union and United Kingdom decide jointly’ that it should end – no sovereign right for the UK to leave.
“No-one had a pop at her”, I’m told – but equally her answers don’t seem to have won round the assembled Association officers.