PM Theresa May gives evidence before the Liaison Committee on matters relating to Brexit at Portcullis House in London, November 29, 2018. Press Association. All rights reserved.
For months now – years, even – commentary on the Brexit negotiations has been almost entirely negative. David Cameron threw in the towel as soon as the referendum result revealed how badly he had misjudged the electorate. Theresa May – who had campaigned alongside him for the UK to remain in the EU – was installed as Prime Minister, once the leading Leave candidates for the Tory leadership had comically self-destructed. She shouldered the task of negotiating an agreed withdrawal from the EU within the timeframe – an unrealistic two years – allowed by the Lisbon Treaty’s article 50.
