Michael Gove is right: it’s vital to get the Chequers deal through | Simon Jenkins

Hard-Brexit fantasists and deluded remainers who threaten to oppose the plan in parliament risk unleashing chaos

Sanity time is at hand. Michael Gove is right. The reckless, crash-bang-wallop of the hard-Brexit fantasists has had its day. They have not produced a plausible future for British trade with Europe. The default option is now “crashing out”, and that is infantile. Of course the Chequers proposal has problems. But it takes the UK out of the EU and keeps frictionless trade with EU memb...