The Irish Question has plagued governments from Elizabeth I to Oliver Cromwell to Lloyd George and Margaret Thatcher. It was all going so well but now it’s Theresa May’s turn to be stuck between a rock (the DUP) and a hard place (the Republic) and learn the Answer to the Question: try to please them all and you’ll end up just where you started, pleasing no one. The R of I is our 4th largest trading partner and right now and for a change, we need them more than they need us.
“A ‘no-deal’ Brexit will be devastating”
I quoted Overheard Bloke in the Gym Changing Room not long after the referendum: ‘We should say ‘You’ve had your last cheque, Merkel’, close the borders, job done!’ If we’d followed his sage advice rather than fannying around for four years, we’d have been through the...