Desperate Brexit deadlock triggers the search for a miraculous escape | Andrew Rawnsley
The parliamentary year ends not with a bang, but with a whimper of relief from Downing Street that Mrs May is staggering into the summer break still able to call herself prime minister, a howl of indignation from opposition parties about government cheating in key Commons divisions and an almost-universal groan of despair that Britain is mired in Brexit stalemate. Take back control, they said. How is that working out for you?
The prime minister’s Chequers plan is barely a fortnight old, but already being read the last rites. It is too soft for the hard Brexiters. It is too hard for those who want a soft Brexit. It is being picked apart by a disdainful EU. There is a constituency in parliament for some kind of halfway house arrangement, but Mrs May’s version hasn’t got many enthusiastic takers, even among those MPs willing to entertain compromise.
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