Brexit Bulletin: Moscovici teases Breversal as talks resume

Good afternoon.

Dominic Raab is resuming Brexit talks this week with Michel Barnier, but the European elite is still trying to rattle the United Kingdom’s cage. European Commissioner Pierre Moscovici has declared that Brexit could be reversed “in theory”, to the delight of uber-Remainers Best for Britain who called his comments a “great boost to the cause”.  

Meanwhile, Labour arch-Remainer Lord Adonis is piling pressure on his party to toughen its opposition to Brexit amid polling that suggested the party would close the gap on the Tories if it opposed Brexit.  “If Labour becomes an accomplice to Brexit, it is finished,” he told the Guardian. Of course, the party’s current more ambivalent stance doesn’t seem to be serving it too badly — given how often polls suggest it is drawing level with Theresa May’s party.

What happens if the negotiations go wrong and Britain ends up leaving without a deal? Ministers will start to shed light on that later this week by publishing a series of planning papers. One such paper, seen by the Telegraph, states the three million EU citizens living in the UK will be able to stay in the event of no deal, and on the same terms proposed in the withdrawal agreement signed with Brussels last year.

“The proposal is to make the offer irrespective of whether the EU reciprocates,” the Whitehall paper reportedly says. “Making an offer is not only important to provide certainty publicly, but will enable the UK government to take the moral high ground.”