Trump, Erdogan and Macron all pose difficulties for the alliance. Corbyn in Downing Street would pose deeper and more dangerous ones.
Politicians are so uncomfortable talking seriously about our international role and relationships that instead we constantly engage in proxy battles.
The abuse became so bad that I felt the need to stop giving media interviews, writing articles and to remove myself from the public arena.
This is Ireland’s deal as much as the UK’s. So the Taoiseach has an interest in assisting the Prime Minister over extension.
It is time for the Commons to stop telling us what it’s against and to show what it’s for, which ought to be: this deal.
Bettel’s rant reflects frustration at Westminster’s failure to agree to the deal, but he was hardly welcoming the UK back to the EU top table.
Even if the leaders on both sides soften somewhat, and workable ideas are forthcoming, the political incentives for the status quo are powerful.
Their words, like Johnson’s visit itself, look more like more gambits in a blame game than a genuine change of heart.
“We are ultimately preparing for all the possibilities including that of an exit without an agreement.”
Plus: should Patel have come? Should Mordaunt have gone? And: my predictions. What I got right and wrong.
The new Prime Minister will inherit the worst political legacy in living memory – with the very barest of working majorities.
The first in a ConservativeHome series of what the new Prime Minister must do in the month before Parliament returns in September.
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Leo Varadkar summed it up by saying, “I think it’s a positive thing that we have a decisive outcome in Britain.”