The hour after the May departure

19.05 Day 0, outside 10 Downing Street. “Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.  I have a brief prepared statement and then I will have time for some questions.  This evening, as you’ve just heard, Theresa May has announced her intention to step down as the...
Summing up Brexit

Summing up Brexit

If we’re being scrupulously honest, very few of us would have considered where we are now in the Brexit process to be the pink of perfection.  We aren’t, to put it mildly enough for some of my more sensitive Twitter followers, exactly cock-a-hoop with...
Building a Brexit

Building a Brexit

Theresa May wasn’t my first choice to lead the Conservative Party.  I wanted David Cameron to face the responsibility of delivering Brexit after the referendum.  I wanted him to come out to the podium the day after the referendum and say something like...