Welcome to the Guardian’s weekly Brexit briefing, striving to make sense of the nonsensical since summer 2016. As no-deal planning continued across the the EU, May warned MPs that their vote had not killed off the prospect of the UK crashing out. Officials in Brussels said a no-deal Brexit may be more likely because the prime minister will not have the political courage to ask for a long Brexit delay, which they believe she needs. The threat of a no-deal Brexit by accident, therefore, remains very real. Once the government has conceded the need to delay, someone will have to go further and acknowledge the damage of implementing Brexit altogether.

Source: The Guardian February 05, 2019 07:00 UTC