In July, Nick de Bois found himself as chief of staff in the Brexit department after the sudden resignation of David Davis and the appointment of Dominic Raab. So what did the fevered EU negotiations look like from the inside? And what happens now? Plus: Poppy Noor argues that the crisis on the high street is hitting women’s jobs hardest
When the former MP Nick de Bois received a text message at his Spanish villa in July, little did he know that hours later he would be pitched into negotiating a way out of Britain’s biggest political crisis in a generation. It was from Dominic Raab, who had just been made Brexit secretary and he needed a chief of staff.
In the following months, there have been frantic negotiations in Brussels and at home to reach a Brexit deal that would stand a chance of gaining support from the EU and parliament. De Bois describes the high-stakes encounters – and the growing realisation that the deal the prime minister was willing to sign was not one many of his fellow Brexiters felt they can support.
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