Friday 22 September 2017

Indefinite Leave To Remain

I regret that the likes of Keir Starmer got to Jeremy Corbyn on Brexit. But they did, and the result has just been read out in Florence by Theresa May: a two year transition period, inside the Single Market and the Customs Union. As if she had thought of it herself. And cheered on by Boris Johnson, which says a lot of things about a lot of things.

May's entire programme, such as it is, is either watered down Corbyn or, as in this case, a straight lift from him. Next up, the public sector pay cap, and student payment of undergraduate tuition fees. Any compromise at all on either of those, and at least some compromise is clearly coming on each and both of them, would effectively negate the General Election result. Labour might as well have won.

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