How much will Theresa May’s speech today surprise us? The Prime Minister’s promise to offer more detail on Brexit was made before Christmas, but Number 10 types seemed curiously relaxed about the prep for the speech over the holiday. And even though those briefing the speech over the weekend warned of a ‘market correction’, this is likely to have been as much to suggest that the speech was going to be big and revelatory as it was to actually warn about its content.
Today we will get the 12 priorities for May’s negotiation of Britain’s exit, which will be guided by four key principles. Those are ‘certainty and clarity’, ‘a stronger Britain’, ‘a fairer Britain’ and a ‘truly global Britain’. None of which sound like the sort of principles that anyone at any end of the political spectrum from Jeremy Corbyn to Peter Bone would disagree with.
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