With a week off from Brexit talks in Brussels, the drama shifted back to London, where the House of Lords caused a stir about customs union membership.
The UK government insisted it would be quitting the EU’s customs union despite the Lords’ vote to keep the country in, via an amendment to the UK’s withdrawal bill - the draft law that repeals the UK’s EU membership and temporarily transposes EU rules into domestic law.
UK home secretary Amber Rudd then shook things up when she told...