Comment: Brexit commitments – but 'commitment' in the loosest way

© David Watmough

It took a whole week to get a copy of Robin Walker MP’s speech to the recent FTA’s Keep Britain Trading event in Westminster. (Anyone would think the Department for Exiting the EU might have something to hide.)

Normally, notes would be sufficient, but with the UK government’s tendency currently to obfuscate its Brexit ‘policy’, it seemed sensible to get the actual text.

Not least, in fact, because FTA deputy chief executive James Hookham said, rather drily, after the speech: ”That was ...