Leader comment: Brexit's reality is beginning to dawn on May and co

Theresa May's warning that 'no-one will get everything they want' out of the Brexit negotiations suggests reality is dawning on the UK Government.

By The Newsroom Saturday, 3rd March 2018, 9:26 am Updated Saturday, 3rd March 2018, 9:37 am

Theresa May has warned that "no-one will get everything they want" from the Brexit talks with the EU (Picture: Getty)

Before the EU referendum, David Cameron went to Brussels insisting he would win concessions that would give the UK a “special status” within the 28-nation block. The then Prime Minister’s strategy was later described by Stirling University politics expert Dr Andrew Glencross as a “great miscalculation” that played a part in the vote for Brexit. Cameron “blundered by promising so much and delivering little”, Dr Glencross said.

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Brexiteers in Cabinet have boasted the UK will be able to “have our cake and eat it” by negotiating a trade deal that will retain most of the benefits of EU membership.