It is still a few hours before Philip Hammond makes his speech to the CBI this evening but so much of it has been trailed in advance that delegates might as well just read the newspapers – and then book some entertainment from a juggler or fire-eater instead.
We know he is going to attack what he calls the “populist right”. We know, in a thinly-veiled attack on Boris, he will say:
“There is a real risk of a new prime minister abandoning the search for a deal, and shifting towards seeking a damaging no-deal exit as a matter of policy.”
Then he is going to go on and accuse Conservatives who want to leave the EU without a deal of acting “knowingly to inflict damage on our economy and living standards” and of doing so for “ideological reasons”.
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