Theresa May’s plan to wrap up an agreement on the first stage of Brexit talks was scuppered at the last minute yesterday. Good, says the Sun. The paper argues that yesterday’s deadline was ‘always going to be a moveable feast’, and that ‘the Prime Minister is right not to agree a deal to meet a made-up deadline’. OK, it’s ‘disappointing’ that the PM will now need to do it ‘all over again later this week’. But the paper says May should remember that there is only one deadline that must be met: March 29th, 2019. Brexit is a process ’that will decide the future of our once-again sovereign country for decades to come’. ‘Let’s not rush it,’ the Sun concludes.
It should have been obvious to ‘anyone who has followed the politics’ of Northern Ireland for the last 50 years that a Brexit deal whereby the country ends up with a ‘different regulatory regime from the rest of the UK’ would not have been acceptable, says the Daily
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