The creeping reality is dawning of what extending Article 50 means

  To clear my head, I’ve done a round up of expert comment of where we are and what might be done, with 51 days to go to Brexit. Most of it implies or supports an extension of Article 50. But  the heavy squeeze on Mrs May  is on with a vengeance. The EU don’t look like granting it unless she drops  options they’ve already  rejected  And that excludes the options  in her Commons mandate.  So  this week, back empty …

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Pressure on Theresa May is mounting.. and this is only the start..

Theresa May’s little pitch over coffee at the EU summit last night seems to have backfired.  The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph although divided over a hard and a soft Brexit  are united in reporting  that she  ” created a lot of anger.” This from the bête noire. Asked how talks had gone with Mrs May last night, Jean-Claude Juncker shrugged his shoulders and spluttered “Pfff”. The European Commission president said: “We had no special event with Theresa May yesterday. “She …

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