The news may yet be good. There is a way ahead. If we can just keep our nerve for one last push on Monday, a sensible outcome to the Brexit saga is in sight. It is what it always has been: Brexit within a customs union. It is “leave” without lunacy. But first Theresa May is to make one last despairing attempt to get her twice-rejected “red lines” deal through the Commons.
To satisfy the Speaker’s requirement that it not be substantially the same as the previous votes, only the withdrawal agreement will be considered. But this represents the vast bulk of the deal, unchanged. Even as her fractious cabinet combusts, she hurls herself sacrificially into the flames. Until now, May’s way was presented as at least better than hard Brexit. The choice was between it and crashing out. But her deal would still involve arguing over “frictionless trade” for two more ghastly years – and then a possible repeat of this week’s chaos.
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