We were told that no deal was better than a bad deal. That the prime minister

would walk away from a bad deal on behalf of the British people. Now all that has changed. It turns out that only Theresa May gets to decide what a “bad” deal means.

The public will have no say; their views are incidental. And having claimed all along that no deal was a perfectly viable route to go down, Mrs May now portrays it as a potential punishment for the country, a “do what I want, or else” option.

The Chequers deal takes away sovereignty. It consigns Britain to accepting rules without a say, neither in nor out of the EU. It is the worst of both worlds. The