May accentuates the positives and dazzles with confusion | John Crace

She was going to up the ante by demanding a backstop to a backstop to a backstopNo one could say they hadn’t been warned. At the same time the previous week, Theresa May had come to the Commons to explain why there wasn’t going to be any progress in the Brexit negotiations at the forthcoming EU summit in Brussels. Now she was back to report that she had been as good as her word and that there had indeed been no progress. It had been a matter of trust. The prime minister who delivered