The vote adds an explicit legal step that makes the parameters of the exit deal clear

Leavers may not have intended it, but parliament is beginning to reassert itself

The negotiators’ agreed report sets out a default position — there is little that is locked out

In the 100 years to the 1920s trade and Ireland provoked huge changes in party politics

Brussels fights with bureaucracy and unanimity, to the UK’s bluster and division

Britain leaving without a deal is a likelihood — but there are alternatives