We won’t have a hard Brexit. There aren’t enough MPs to back it | Martin Kettle

The issue need not bring down Theresa May’s government, but Jacob Rees-Mogg’s sabre-rattling is a bluff she will have to callWith the wonderful benefit of hindsight, the great moments of political choice can take on a deceptive inevitability. Yet in real time, these moments that make or break governments – such as Sir Robert Peel’s repeal of the corn laws, which split the Tories for a generation – are more typically the hard-fought climax of processes that