Congratulations are only guardedly for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who just signaled that he’s prepared for Britain to go into the Brexit era without a deal with Europe. That certainly would be nice, and it’s a moment for President Trump to signal America is prepared to step up. It would invite concluding a British trade pact of our own as soon as the Mother of Parliaments is fully free from the continent.
We don’t want to get too effusive, though, at least not yet. It’s unclear whether Mr. Johnson is truly walking away from negotiations. The hangups reportedly involve various subsidies, how level the field is going to be for trade, and fishing rights, which President Macron covets in Britain’s territorial waters. The founding father of the Brexit movement, Nigel Farage, sees the fisheries as an acid test of British independence.
Mr. Farage offered rare compliments to Mr. Johnson today, after the
prime minister’s public statement (please see above). He sees the goal
of a “Canada-style deal” as having been “always impossible” given the
agreement struck shortly before Britain’s withdrawal from Europe became
effective on January 31. “Boris now reaching the right solution,” Mr.
Farage reckons, meaning a “no deal Brexit,” which the Sun has preferred
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