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After 19 torturous months, Theresa May has finally landed her Brexit deal. And what kind of deal is it - a good deal, or a bad deal? To be honest, it's neither of those things. It's a deal the prime minister is trying to argue is in the national interest.
She's tried to get her cabinet onside after a five-and-a-half hour tortuous meeting yesterday, but it hasn't gone quite to plan. The resignation of her Brexit secretary Dominic Raab on Thursday morning shows that many of her colleagues simply do not agree with the prime minister and cannot support this deal in good conscience. The question now is how many more agree with Mr Raab? In the Conservative party there are dozens of MPs who are unhappy with the prime minister's direction and may now move in a leadership challenge against her. The same could be true for other cabinet ministers, such as Esther McVey, Penny Morden, and Andrea Latimer, also unhappy at the state of these negotiations.
Even if Mrs May survives the next 24 hours, she's still got to get it through the House of Commons. We've heard from MPs like Jacob Rees-Mogg, who are not particularly happy at this deal at all. They will be rallying support against Theresa May's deal.
I hope parliament will block it. I think what we know of this deal is deeply unsatisfactory.
Ultimately, though, Mrs May will try going above their heads and say to the country, at this stage in negotiations, there is no alternative. With the UK set to leave the EU within five months, the only real alternative at this stage to Mrs May's deal is no deal at all, and the consequences of that could be pretty harsh. So no matter what happens at this stage, Mrs May's plan still seems to be the only one in town.
