It’s time for a hand-brake turn on Brexit

ARE we now roaring flat out towards a cliff-edge Brexit with Jacob Rees-Mogg’s foot firmly on the accelerator? It certainly seems so. The Prime Minister’s White Paper, the attempt to remain in the EU regulatory framework without actually being a member while somehow conjuring an Irish border solution, was trashed almost before the ink was dry. Not just by Brexit’s usual suspects but, solemnly and almost regretfully, by the Brussels negotiators. The EU has not moved one iota over its four freedoms which underpin the single market, and cannot. There has to be free movement of people and goods. To believe otherwise was idiocy. But we’ve known that since the morning after the referendum. The months since have been a fruitless attempt by Theresa May to keep her party together, with the predictable consequence, chaos. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16369942.its-time-for-a-hand-brake-turn-on-brexit/