May passes party test on the road to Brexit

It was a wise, indeed essential, move on the part of the Prime Minister, to announce on the eve of the Conservative Party conference that progress is already being made to begin Brexit.

Had she failed to do this, she would have been nagged from the start of the conference until the end with cries of “get a move on!”

May has put forward what, on the face of it, appears to be a comprehensive and sensible package. But those in the engine room, so to speak, who will have to continue negotiating with Brussels, will not find it plain sailing. Storms lie ahead.

They will have to contend with some hard-headed Eurocrats, notably Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, who seem hell-bent on resisting what Britain