David Davis, the Brexit minister, is old and wise enough to know that the phrase “this time it will be different” normally presages disaster. It’s precisely because history rhymes, especially when it comes to agreements between institutions, that his claim that our deal with the EU will be “like no other in history” does not exactly inspire confidence. The more unusual and complex our aims, the greater the risk of failure. Which is not to say that withdrawing from the EU was ever going to be simple or easy, given that our economies, laws and security arrangements are so intimately...
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