The UK’s white paper got a polite welcome from the EU, but the evolution will have to become a revolution if a deal is to be done (see EUROPE 12061). And it’s not just the UK that will have to move.
Firstly, and importantly, the UK said there would be a white paper on the future relationship and there was a white paper. The fact that it came more than two years after the Brexit referendum was not lost on Brussels.
Over in London, it was chaos. A debate in the House of Commons was...