of the UK Supreme Court’s verdict that Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully in trying to suspend parliament does not change the realities of Brexit. Whatever happens to Johnson, the same challenges will face any UK government that wants to leave the EU with some semblance of orderliness rather than preside over a broken Brexit. Whether the UK government agrees a withdrawal agreement by the end of October depends, as I write in the column, on whether on the question of the Irish border it moves “far and fast enough towards EU demands in the limited time left and [is] able to sell the concessions this entails better than” former prime minister Theresa May did. Read More...
of the UK Supreme Court’s verdict that Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully in trying to suspend parliament does not change the realities of Brexit. Whatever happens to Johnson, the same challenges will face any UK government that wants to leave the EU with some semblance of orderliness rather than preside over a broken Brexit. Whether the UK government agrees a withdrawal agreement by the end of October depends, as I write in the column, on whether on the question of the Irish border it moves “far and fast enough towards EU demands in the limited time left and [is] able to sell the concessions this entails better than” former prime minister Theresa May did.
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