Brexit weekly: 5 things

Brexit weekly: 5 things

Brexit purgatory The medieval Catholic Church used to be big on the concept of purgatory. It was the stage between heaven and hell that you resided in at the culmination of your own personal Article 50 process (i.e. when you’d died). How long you’d be in purgatory...
Brexit weekly: 5 things

Brexit weekly: 5 things

Breakfast at Brussels It seems we have something approaching a breakthrough. Under cover of night and after hours of back and forth with the EU and the DUP, Theresa May was spirited out of Downing Street and whisked to Brussels for a second meal in a week with...
Brexit weekly: 5 things

Brexit weekly: 5 things

The Brexit Papers Saga Fresh from falling off a Brussels stage, Brexit Secretary David Davis was invoking the ire of fellow MPs this week. Receiving a summons by MPs to appear in front of the Brexit Select Committee on Monday (for this purpose, the parliamentary...
Brexit weekly: 5 things

Brexit weekly: 5 things

Time to be moving along? Whisper it quietly, but we could be about to see a breakthrough in Brexit talks. Reports this week have suggested that after months of frustration (never has the sight of David Davis falling off a stage been more symbolic), UK and EU...