Brexit is too important to be rushed. Let’s calm down and press ‘pause’ | Simon Jenkins

The UK’s future depends on a sensible compromise being reached. To achieve it, we will have to delay our departure date

Delay, delay, delay. Today’s parliament well mirrors the nation. It is implacably split. It cannot make up its mind on how to leave the EU next month. So it should just stop, calm down and think.

There is a sensible way forward into the two-year transition period, and it is called Theresa May’s deal with the EU. But since some 80 Tory fundamentalists will not have it and hold...