I don’t view that “EU win” as a loss for the UK. The single market is a EU construct, and it would be odd if the EU gave up the right to arbitrate around it. The mechanisms agreed to make that arbitr… (View Post)

Let’s see the detail on that. Personally, I am delighted by the state aid / VAT agreement as well. Those elements always struck me as a terrible surrender of sovereignty by Johnson and Frost. (View Post)

I think we discussed this when it was published. I think it’s pretty well established among the think tankers commentariat now that Britain is quite uniquely fucked. Starmer even referred to this obl… (View Post)

I hope this is the beginning of Britain’s global rehabilitation. (View Post)

Von der Leyen is closer to a Head of Government than a Head of State. The Council head (whose name I have forgotten) is closer to “Head of State” for the EU, albeit an effectively powerless one. (View Post)