Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

Yes, it's Brexit

But aspects of the deal spell further battles with the EU without Britain's most powerful weapon

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Melanie Phillips
Dec 28, 2020
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Four days after the trade deal was signed between the UK and the EU few people, if any, have yet ploughed through the deal’s 1200 or so pages of dense legal text and annexes, and most of us never will. 

Maybe in due course some buried horrors will emerge. But at present, it does look as if Boris Johnson really has delivered his country from the grip of t…

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