Brexit has produced few scenes as absurd as the race in Westminster to count up backers of Boris Johnson’s “deal”. There are complex technical reasons why the Downing Street plan was a non-starter in Brussels, but the broad outline is simple enough. Sanity might intrude far enough up Downing Street to allow grudging submission to the law that obliges the government to seek an article 50 extension in the absence of a deal. Luckily for Corbyn, Johnson is striving to make the Tories look even more unhinged and thuggish. Downing Street is already a campaign headquarters, not the centre of a serious government.

Source: The Guardian October 08, 2019 17:18 UTC