Given U.K. government’s focus on creating jobs in the past month, and its levelling-up programme more broadly, a no-deal Brexit would fatally undermine the their domestic agenda.

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It would also undermine its foreign policy agenda. The notion of “Global Britain” would be seriously damaged if we end up in an argument with our nearest neighbours and pass
controversial, law-breaking, legislation such as some of the clauses contained in the IM Bill.
His deal wasn’t oven ready, and he wasn’t even govern ready. A failure to get a deal is a failure of statecraft and he will only have himself to blame. He could’ve sought more time, he could’ve made concessions sooner, he could’ve hired fewer Vote Leave ultras.
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