
Boris has five days to make a Brexit deal
The prime minister is about to launch himself on the most important and arduous challenge of his time in office, and arguably of his life. In the course of just the next five days he will try to secure a Brexit deal from an EU deeply sceptical he is prepared to make the compromises they say they need, and with a British Parliament largely hostile to his vision of life outside the EU. As I mentioned yesterday, he’ll announce the big headline of what he wants in his conference speech tomorrow. A day or two afterwards, he’ll publish his alternative to that backstop, hated by Tory Brexiter MPs and Northern
