Today the discussion is mainly about law.
Following the announcement earlier in the week that the UK Government intended to break International law, a meeting was hastily arranged between Michael Gove and Maroš Šefčovič.
By some accounts it was either terse or testy, but it resulted in this statement from Maroš Šefčovič.
Following that, the UK’s Attorney General, Suella Braverman, issued this statement.
Whereupon the lawyers had a field day showing just how misleading (to be generous) the statement is.
Where next? The government are very unlikely to back down, but what are the chances of the bill passing into law? Many Tories in both the Commons and the Lords, today including Eurosceptic Michael Howard, have criticised the position, so surely it has to change…
Normally I’d consider an act like this to be a diversion from something else that we should be paying attention to (such as the government telling us both that if we are in any doubt we should get tested for Coronavirus, and that tests aren’t available because too many asymptomatic people are taking them), but these are not normal times.