An election would liberate Boris Johnson. But first he must get his deal through | Simon Jenkins

The prime minister has targeted 12 December. Yet if he wants to ‘get Brexit done’, he’ll have to compromise on the withdrawal bill

The remainers have screwed up. After three years of dithering since the 2016 referendum, this last gasp of Britain’s liberal establishment, once so confident and unassailable, has become a drawn-out howl of anguish. Ever since one of its former members, Boris Johnson, turned Caliban, he has roamed the political landscape, taunting his old associates at every turn. He threate...bill

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