I am the god of hellfire, and I bring you Donald Tusk. Just when this whole Brexit business was at risk of suffocating in hitherto unseen levels of tedium, along comes the European Council president to wind everyone up. Speaking in Brussels yesterday alongside Irish PM Leo Varadkar, Tusk asked: “I’ve been wondering what that special place in hell looks like, for those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan [for] how to carry it out safely.”Whoever could he mean? We could hazard a guess that Boris Johnson, David Davis and Jacob Rees-Mogg all have a space in Tusk’s imagined hell, while Chris Grayling is in charge of the parking. Rees-Mogg proved…

Source: The Times February 07, 2019 09:00 UTC