Brexit negotiators have managed to make “sufficient progress” on the three priority divorce issues - citizens, money and Ireland - to move talks on to a transition phase, if not yet on to trade (but more on that later).
But what happens in phase one doesn’t necessarily stay in phase one, as the Irish border issue clearly illustrates.
Brexit watchers would be forgiven for being confused by the 15 paragraphs on Ireland that ended up forming part of the joint progress report signed off by...