Brexit white paper won't win over MPs or the EU

''..Think of the government’s Brexit white paper as a freeze-frame rather than the whole movie. An extremely important frame, certainly, but there are plenty more action shots to come before the Brexit credits can finally roll, if they ever do.
The 98-page document does capture the moment when the government finally and formally admitted to the British public that our future relationship with the EU is supremely vital to the nation’s economy, prosperity and security. So vital, in fact, that it must take priority over all the unilateralist fantasies about what Brexit might have involved..''
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