
Henry Newman: The Alternative Arrangements Commission offers the best route through the backstop problem
There are real, viable answers to this sticky problem. But rebuilding trust may be as hard as resolving technical questions.
There are real, viable answers to this sticky problem. But rebuilding trust may be as hard as resolving technical questions.
In trying to find a way across, and to secure the votes she needs from Labour MPs, the Prime Minister risks unintended consequences.
There are four steps she must take, successfully and in short order, to be in with any chance of seeing it fly.
EU leaders should recognise that May is serious in trying to reach a negotiated deal that has a chance of passing Parliament.
By combining all the Cabinet approval ratings for the year, we can see the true scope of members’ dissatisfaction.
“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.
There is still time for adoption of a comprehensive free trade deal on offer from the EU and applied to the entire UK, which even now could provide a way forward.
The DExEU minister says she has “a lot of respect” for Davis, but that she’s “here in the government”.
She said the bare minimum on Brexit and Corbyn has no idea how to get anything more out of her.
With the backstop blocking progress in the negotiations, the Government must map out its plan to mitigate the effects of no agreement being reached.
“We should…switch to Canada +++ and deliver an outcome that is good for the UK, acceptable to Parliament, and negotiable with Brussels.”
Rees-Mogg is “worried” by reports that working families will lose money. Plus: how should May pitch for Labour voters? And why he is “always on good behaviour.”
He raised his listeners’ spirits in a way that no other speaker at this tepid and uncertain conference has managed.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer dared to be dull as he set out the economic facts of life and stuck to the Chequers plan.
“I’m being ambitious for this country. That’s why I want us to get a really good free trade deal with the European Union which is what lies at the heart of the Chequers plan.”