This week a meeting of the Cabinet's Brexit sub-committee confirmed that there will be no "new customs partnership" (NCP) and no form of customs union with the EU - or did it?
It certainly should have, after all it was part of the Conservative manifesto at the last election that we would leave the customs union, the single market and escape the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the very things that 17.4 million people voted for in the referendum. And it has been the stated aim of the Prime Minister to leave the customs union.
It is axiomatic that not to leave the customs union would break a key manifesto pledge and mean that the PM would have perpetrated an unprecedented...