The unlikely survival of May’s Chequers plan for Brexit
Despite being shot down from all sides, Theresa May’s Chequers plan for Brexit refuses to die
COMPROMISES have few friends. So it has proved with the Chequers plan for Brexit, which proposes staying in the single market for goods along with a complex “facilitated customs arrangement” chiefly designed to avert a hard border in Ireland. Brexiteers hate being tied closely to Brussels. Pro-Europeans think the plan is worse than continuing membership. And the EU sees both of its main features as unworkable and undermining the integrity of its single market.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Chequers, the unlikely survivor”
Britain September 15th 2018
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