How much detail does Theresa May need to give in her much-anticipated Brexit speech on Tuesday? The Prime Minister will presumably have to say more than ‘Brexit means Brexit’, and odd phrases about what colour Brexit should be (red, white and blue) won’t pass muster either.
But remember that the original big Brexit speech at the start of a year was the Bloomberg speech that David Cameron gave in 2013 – and he gave so much detail about what he wanted from a renegotiation of Britain’s relationship with the European Union that he was inevitably going to disappoint, which he then did, taking Britain out of the EU as a result. May will not want to fall into the same trap.
Neither will she want to be the one who gets blamed for Britain not getting certain things. Single market membership for instance, would be better withdrawn by recalcitrant EU leaders, than something that she seems to be happy to give up herself.
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