Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

Theresa May’s honeymoon period comes to an end

The Prime Minister and her colleagues are very slowly starting to reveal what they think they mean when they say ‘Brexit means Brexit’. This afternoon the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union David Davis will give a statement to Parliament on what the terms of negotiation might resemble for Brexit – or at least what the terms that ministers have come up with over the summer are. It may be that the Government isn’t actually ready to set very much out at all, but is just trying to avoid an urgent question from a hostile MP by giving a statement.

Davis has described this as ‘an historic and positive moment for our nation’, which presumably isn’t just referring to the fact that the man repeatedly tipped for a Cabinet return whenever David Cameron was in trouble will finally stand at the Dispatch Box today.

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