Cans kicked down the road, last–minute concessions made, the process kept on track — just. This is how many people expected the Brexit negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union to go. But that is just a description of the situation at Westminster.
We still don’t know whether the government has the votes in the Commons to take Britain out of the customs union.

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