An updated version of this article with details of David Davis’s resignation can be found here
THERESA MAY is often called weak and indecisive. Yet the prime minister belied both epithets on July 6th when she pushed her plan for a softened Brexit through an all-day meeting of her cabinet at Chequers, her official country residence. After the meeting a steely Mrs May said the days of ministerial dissent on Brexit were over. From now on, she intends to enforce collective cabinet responsibility, implying that any minister who objects publicly to her proposals will have to resign.
The full details will not emerge until a white paper is published later this week. But Downing Street has released a summary. Britain will be in a common regulatory area with the EU for all goods, including agrifoods, and will also promise to observe all future EU rules. This implies effective membership of the single market for goods. The figleaf that Parliament will have the right not to adopt EU legislation is just that; in practice, because it would mean losing unrestricted access to the single market, it will be a nuclear weapon that cannot be used.
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