Will they or won't they?

It’s now up to MPs. Either they swallow the Boris deal and we leave at the end of the month, or they vote it down and we’re in unknown territory again. Personally I reckon Boris has played a blinder. Juncker would not have made clear his support for no further extension if he had not been reasonably certain that at least one of the 27 was so much on his wavelength as to veto the necessary unanimous decision of the council that would be necessary.

I won’t rehash all the acres of newsprint on this. It’s not a good treaty and it’s not a treaty that will last for long, I suspect – but it gets us out and it starts the process. As a contributor keeps reminding me, after forty years Brexit is not an event but a process and if it takes ten years to unwind completely then so be it. But we must start somewhere and here is the best we can get.

I can offer only the same message as the Express this morning.