When Conservative ministers who campaigned for Brexit confront the detail involved in removing the UK from the European Union, they tend either to soften their position or resign. David Davis tried both. The former Brexit secretary started out gung-ho, then flirted with compromise. But, realising in the end that his campaign rhetoric and ministerial duties were incompatible, he quit.
Mr Davis’s successor, Dominic Raab, is already experiencing the pain that comes with trying to accomplish in reality something that was conceived in fantasy. Questioned by a parliamentary committee this week, Mr Raab insisted that the prime minister’s Brexit blueprint – the Chequers plan – is a viable basis for negotiations in Brussels, despite many Tory colleagues openly despising the proposals.
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