Emperor May Has No Clothes — It’s Time To Stop Fooling Us All On Brexit

Theresa May’s government has spent the past 18 months chasing unicorns. It has squandered time, frittered away our negotiating leverage and forfeited the goodwill of the British public, pursuing the fantasy of a tailor-made Brexit deal that would give the UK access to the bits of the single market we like without membership of EU institutions or acceptance of all of its rules. After the Salzburg summit , it should now be clear to even the slowest learner that this approach is not going to fly.

I share the widespread indignation about the way EU leaders treated our Prime Minister in Austria. But their brutal rebuff was utterly predictable. It may be unreasonable, it may be unfair but the other members of the EU have consistently made it clear that they are not going to budge from their opening position in this negotiation.

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