Well, Boris flopped. Last night, the House of Commons was manoeuvred by a Remainer MP to delay consideration of his government’s Brexit law while demanding that he write to the European Union (EU) and ask for a delay beyond 31 October.
The Lisbon Treaty is the Gordian Knot of British politics and Boris has made the mistake of trying to untie it.
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