Promises made after the referendum have now collided with the legal and economic consequences of leaving the EUIf the EU referendum was the moment the British electorate clashed with the establishment,8 December 2017 was the day that the legal and economic consequences collided with its political promises. The joint divorce agreement hammered out in the intervening 528 days makes clear that little remains of the many red lines set out by Theresa May in her Lancaster House speech or party conference address of 2016.
The first, and biggest, or concession is buried in paragraph 49 of the 15-page report published early on Friday morning. Its implications will be anything but silent in the weeks to approach,for it undermines the prime minister’s preceding insistence that Britain will be leaving the single market.
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Source: guardian.co.uk