With Brexit talks floundering, a public vote is May’s only chance of getting her deal through | Polly Toynbee

This failing prime minister will leave office with nothing unless she compromises and allows the electorate a final say

The charade starts again, the charivari, the pantomime “negotiations” between team May and the Corbyn crew. The play-acting, the feinting and feigning, still pretending there is progress, scarifying both parties’ rank and file. Rory Stewart exposed his wet-behind-the-ears arrival in the cabinet by obediently delivering Downing Street’s line that “our positions are only a quarter of an inch apart”. Well, that’s the longest quarter-inch in history.

In the meantime, in unparalleled parliamentary paralysis, the chancellor has abandoned his promised three-year spending review, with no sign of the long-delayed social care green paper. Instead, this week’s only item in the Commons is the wild animals in circuses bill.

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