She was going to up the ante by demanding a backstop to a backstop to a backstop
No one could say they hadn’t been warned. At the same time the previous week, Theresa May had come to the Commons to explain why there wasn’t going to be any progress in the Brexit negotiations at the forthcoming EU summit in Brussels. Now she was back to report that she had been as good as her word and that there had indeed been no progress. It had been a matter of trust. The prime minister who delivered on her promises.
Not that this was quite how May sold her lack of achievements. Rather, she invited MPs to think of the withdrawal agreement as something that was 95% complete. Accentuate the positives. Think of it like a car. Instead of worrying about the fact that no one had yet managed to design a fully functioning engine, concentrate on the nice shiny leather seats, the top-of-the-range sound system and the wheels that were now more or less round. The squares that couldn’t quite be circled.
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