Originally Posted by 1andrew1

The lesson learnt from the Brexit negotiations and the Paterson affair is that when he's outgunned, Johnson retreats.

The EU will come down heavy on the UK if Lord Frost pushes forward with Article 16 and Johnson will do what he does best - back down and run for the hills. The group of what the Telegraph calls Spartans - has-beens and never-beens - who egg Johnson ever onwards into hard-line positions, will just have to accept reality.