Another of Boris’s Daily Telegraph colleagues, Sherelle Jacobs, has written in the paper: “The Battle for Brexit is very far from finished.”
She says: ”In exchange for EU market access, we also suffer the ignominy of still not owning in full the fish in our own waters.”
“So it would be a mistake for Brexiteers to view this imperfect deal as the end off the war.”
“Remainers smell a fresh chance. Northern Ireland is their trump card; it is likely to diverge from the rest of the UK over time.
“Through the vehicle of a Labour government, Remainers now have the option of cynically arguing that we should renegotiate our relationship again with Brussels to seek a softer settlement, in order to ‘save the Union.’ ”
“Until the EU finally crumbles into a bygone projet, the fight for Brexit will rage on.”
I mention the Daily Telegraph a lot. That’s because I’ve found its ‘Brexit’ coverage the most honest and revealing. The Express is also good. Both papers are non-Establishment.
Another highly respected Telegraph columnist, Ambrose Evans -Pritchard, says “ The intricate subclauses of the UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement give Brussels countless ways to try to keep Britain within its legal and regulatory orbit, and it will undoubtedly try to use them .
“The pressure never stops…. There is certainly going to be trouble……”
He predicts that when Britain tries to make changes, “ Brussels will scream divergence, or make accusations of ‘unfair competition’”.
“It is a clash of two incompatible philosophies on what constitutes free trade and what drives the process of economic development and wealth creation. But this battle must be had.”
He quotes Professor Jonathan Portes, from Kings College, London, as saying :’We’ll always have the Sword of Damocles hanging over us. There will always be a constant threat.’
Evans-Pritchard says the EU is in “permanent crisis”, and “condemned to a monetary union that can never be made to work….”
He said Britain must never again find itself in a position where the EU controls so many ‘chokeholds’. We needed to halt our reliance on Europe on areas like food and energy.
For example, he said, “Brussels threatened to cut off Britain’s electricity intercorrectors at the height of winter if it did not come to heel”.