Theresa May’s Next Move?
The Chequers plan for Brexit has been widely slated. By Brexiters for being a sell out, by business for being unworkable in practice and by Remainers for leaving the UK as a vassal state, with no formal influence on rules.
This was after the Chequers meeting had agreed that a ‘hard’ ‘no deal’ iss not affordable economically, and doesn’t provide collaborations in areas such as security, aviation and health.
On that basis Brexit is dead. So what does Theresa May do next?
She is now confirmed as appearing on the Andrew Marr Show at 9am on BBC1 tomorrow, Sunday. Apparently to defend the Cheequers proposal. We shall see what else.
The thing is, both a ‘no deal’ Brexit and some softer compromise were both widely predicted before the referendum as being unacceptable either to the UK or the EU or both.
Theresa May is a smart cookie. I’d discussed a number of issues with her as my MP. Very smart. She must have known the predictions.
But she also knew, once the Brexit result came through: that the only way to avoid leaving the EU and shut up the troublesome Brexiters was to give Brexit every chance. We are in the last throes of that now.
She has almost got the country into agreeing that the Article 50 notification needs to be withdrawn. How exactly she could do that has been covered in earlier blogs. But let’s see what yarn she spins tomorrow.
This was after the Chequers meeting had agreed that a ‘hard’ ‘no deal’ iss not affordable economically, and doesn’t provide collaborations in areas such as security, aviation and health.
On that basis Brexit is dead. So what does Theresa May do next?
She is now confirmed as appearing on the Andrew Marr Show at 9am on BBC1 tomorrow, Sunday. Apparently to defend the Cheequers proposal. We shall see what else.
The thing is, both a ‘no deal’ Brexit and some softer compromise were both widely predicted before the referendum as being unacceptable either to the UK or the EU or both.
Theresa May is a smart cookie. I’d discussed a number of issues with her as my MP. Very smart. She must have known the predictions.
But she also knew, once the Brexit result came through: that the only way to avoid leaving the EU and shut up the troublesome Brexiters was to give Brexit every chance. We are in the last throes of that now.
She has almost got the country into agreeing that the Article 50 notification needs to be withdrawn. How exactly she could do that has been covered in earlier blogs. But let’s see what yarn she spins tomorrow.
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