Cameron will be depicted in tomorrow’s press as either a Tory Boudicca or an Essex
Bulldog (© Tristram Hunt), depending on your point of view. I suspect the truth is somewhere in between. Cameron did not go in swinging a handbag, although it will suit No10 to make out that
he did. But Labour’s caricature of him storming off and wasting the veto certainly doesn’t ring true to me. An EU27 deal was never likely, and EU17 deal always was. Cameron, on their account, just
seems to be being blamed for what was going to happen all along.
In any case, we are still trying to assemble the pieces of last night’s drama, work out the demands and counter-demands, and see what sort of picture they produce. I’m still not sure. So, for now, here are what I regard as the top twelve questions:
1. Cameron’s demands last night were reasonable, modest, almost trivial.
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