Has the Government Brexit plan delivered?
The Brexit White Paper had to be dragged out of the Government - and it shows. The document is designed to set out Government policy ahead of legislation, but it takes Theresa May's 12-point Plan For Britain as the skeleton and adds meagre flesh to the bones. The civil servants charged with bashing out this 77-page document, before the bill allowing the PM to officially trigger the EU divorce moves to committee stage, seem to have taken him at his word.
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