It was left to the hapless Robin Walker to put a positive spin on the government’s difficulties
After spending much of the year briefing against one another behind the scenes, the Tory party broke cover in the Commons when Bill Cash tabled an urgent question on the government’s Brexit negotiation strategy. As the whole point of the government’s strategy is to have no fixed plan about anything, as there is no one plan on which more than a handful of MPs can agree, open warfare was the inevitable result.
With David Davis doing his best to provide no clarity about anything – a task to which he is ideally suited – before the Lords Brexit committee, it was left to his junior minister, the hapless Robin Walker, to put a positive spin on the government’s difficulties. Everything was going extremely well, he insisted in a pinched voice, because the country was going to leave the EU in March 2019.
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