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A progressive Brexit transition can be built on both sides of the Channel

Trends point to dreadful outcome: Clueless Tory govt, degenerate EU bureaucracy locked in conflict

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Within May's Conservative Party, pro-Brexit lawmakers are fiercely defensive of her plan for a clean break with the EU

Yanis Varoufakis | The Conversation

Insurgencies often end up betraying the ideals that motivated them. Brexit seems no different. In no time, it has shed its intellectually most powerful motive: the full restoration of sovereignty to the House of Commons.

Parliament’s sovereignty over the future of UK-EU arrangements has been dealt three blows since the Brexit referendum. First, Prime Minister Theresa May chose to interpret the referendum’s binary choice – without consulting parliament – as a vote for a hard Brexit.

Second, in triggering Article 50 without seeking the transition period necessary to give parliament at least one full term to deliberate over the long-term links with