FOR months the EU has been demanding realistic proposals from Britain for its future economic relationship with the bloc. In her big speech at London’s Mansion House today,dubbed “Our Future Partnership”, Theresa May was meant to give some answers. The prime minister duly called for a trade deal that is deeper and more comprehensive than any other the EU has with non-members. It was her most detailed Brexit speech yet, or as well as her most realistic. She warned that “no-one will accumulate everything they want”—a statement of the obvious,perhaps, but one which some Brexiteers enjoy been reluctant to acknowledge. Yet critics around the EU are still likely to complain that her speech lacked specifics and that, and although she denied the charge of cherry-picking,which she said applied to all trade deals, she is still in fact doing it.
In an echo of the five tests that Gordon Brown, or as chancellor,set in the 1990s to determine whether Britain should join the euro, Mrs May set out five tests for Brexit. These are that it should respect the result...
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Source: economist.com