David Davis takes back control

In the last few months, David Davis has appeared a rather peripheral figure. After the December deal, all the talk was all of how Olly Robbins and Jeremy Heywood were now the key figures in Theresa May’s Brexit team. But, as I say in The Sun today, this week David Davis reasserted himself.

I understand that on Wednesday night he was shuttling back and forth from Number 10 fixing the paper on the future economic partnership. As one member of the inner Cabinet puts it, the paper ‘needed pulling over to a more realistic view of what Brexit meant against a more Heywood view of what it meant’. The paper Theresa May produced at Chequers was, to borrow a phrase, highly aligned with the DD position.

Under this plan, the UK will not automatically take every new EU rule.