Chris Johns: Why did Boris Johnson perform the mother of all Brexit U-turns?

Trade-offs involve winners and losers. Leadership involves explaining this, particularly to the losers and then standing up to and/or compensating the losers when they complain. It’s just politics in the round. Indecisive crowd-pleasers like Johnson can never quite bring themselves to see the simple logic. Perhaps he has finally seen the light. Or a chink of it at least.

Also this week, Sunderland’s local newspaper carried headlines reflecting Nissan’s likely cancellation of investment in the event of no-deal. Sunderland’s hugeplant, employing 6,000 people, would be very adversely affected. A further 24,000 people in the supply chain could be at risk. Part of me thinks that Johnson doesn’t really mean it. While that sentiment has general applicability, in this case I have a feeling he is just playing with ERG. Promising a very loose and distant future relationship with the EU plays to all their atavistic instincts. The ERG can’t see much difference between no-deal and a future frosty relationship. So they might be willing to cut Johnson some slack as he throws the DUP under a bus .

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