Boris and a Path to Triumph
I am increasingly irritated (and God knows it does not take much) by the speculation about a snap general election and the claim that Parliament can stop No Deal. It simply isn’t so; at the very least Parliament needs to act now to implement a further referendum if it wants to stop No Deal. Speculation seems to centre on the idea that no PM would want to take responsibility for the difficulties that No Deal would bring. The truth is that Boris, as our new PM, can have the best of all worlds – his cake and eat it. The first step is getting to No Deal. We can safely assume that attempts to renegotiate fail or will be said to have failed. By then agreeing with his Remainer colleagues to ask the EU for an extension (but telling the ERG that he doesn’t really mean it), he will sweep away much of the opposition to No Deal in the Commons. All he needs is to reduce that opposition so that there is no new and effective formal barrier to No Deal (arguably, it is already too late for ef...