A Conservative asked about the latest Brexit rumor … and this minister’s answer left MPs reeling



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However, it now seemed that the rumors might be true. One of Mr. Johnson’s deputies seemed particularly impressed. She turned out to be his predecessor at issue 10: Theresa May.

Britain, he noted coldly, hoped to reach post-Brexit trade deals. But if the government broke an international agreement it had signed a few months earlier, how could it expect other countries to trust it?

Fortunately for Mr. Lewis, the Commons design meant that he was facing forward and therefore did not have to look his former boss in the eye. But even so, he must have felt the twin lasers in his gaze burning at the back of his skull.

He did his best not to shake like a punished schoolboy. The government, he insisted, had “worked with the EU in a spirit of good faith” and would deliver exactly “what we describe in our manifesto.”

Very true, I guess. The manifesto said that the Withdrawal Agreement was “ready to go.” And soon, apparently, it will.

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