‘Where is the clarity?” When asked this question after his Brexit speech this week, Boris Johnson responded in that familiar, Boris Johnson-like way. “Where’s the carrot? But had the foreign secretary dug deeper in his intellectual vegetable patch, he might have realised that he was scraping the border of something important. As we approach talks on trade, ministers need to think much harder about what carrots they have to offer the EU in exchange for the deep and broad access to its market they so desire. There is one carrot that they do not seem to have spotted, and it should feature heavily in the remaining cabinet speeches on Brexit.…

Source: The Times February 16, 2018 00:04 UTC