Chris

He also said this week that he had done some thinking that he had not done before, and had begun to see Brexit as a process rather than as an event.*

What everyone seems to have forgotten is that once we are a sovereign nation state again we negotiate and sign treaties with the EU as a third party, not as a member obliged to accept the acquis.

Had the WA been the last word on our future relationship with the EU then it would have been a disaster, but it is not.

*Eurosceptic MEP Daniel Hannan has been making this point for years - he has always argued for gradual divergence from EU law wherever it suited us, rather than an ideological sudden break.