Mrs May's emerging deal on Brexit Not just hard, but also difficult
Ever since the early 1960s, when Harold Macmillan sought to take Britain into the then European Economic Community, Britain has been locked into a never-ending series of negotiations with its European neighbours – for accession (twice), renegotiating the terms of membership (twice), major changes to the founding treaties (six times) and new laws (thousands of times). The context of all these negotiations was that Britain and the other members would move closer together, stay conjoined once differences had been settled, jointly plan the club’s f