Theresa May’s hard-won deal is done at last; yet its undoing is all but taken for granted. Even as EU leaders gathered in Brussels to approve the draft withdrawal treaty and political agreement today, its myriad domestic foes were plotting their course past it. No one believes that the prime minister can pilot it successfully through parliament next month. The numbers look worse by the day, knighthoods notwithstanding.
So the signing of the deal looks strangely beside the point after all the months of battle. But this is an important moment, sobering to all bar Brexit ideologues and those whose personal ambition precludes all thought of the country’s interests. As Mrs May observed, a new chapter in our national lives is beginning. The precise content of the coming pages is necessarily vague. We know only that they are bringing Britain closer to the unhappy and unnecessary ending of a 45-year story.
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