For Theresa May, this really is the season of goodwill. As she heads home for Christmas at the end of the week, she will do so in the knowledge that she has managed to unite both sides of her warring party behind the deal she reached on December 8 on the first phase of Brexit negotiations and has seemingly united her cabinet around her approach to the second phase. She will also go home with the applause of her fellow EU leaders at last week’s summit in Brussels ringing in her ears for the way that she managed to face down both the Brexiters in her party and her parliamentary allies to give Brussels pretty much everything that it had demanded. It’s a remarkable reversal…

Source: The Times December 21, 2017 00:00 UTC