The prime minister has got himself into an international legal hole entirely of his own making – but he is not wholly in the wrong, writes John Rentoul
, and hopes that if there is a big enough fuss about his breaking international law, his Leave voters will rally to him. I suspect that he’s not sure how he’s going to get out of this one, but that he thinks he’ll be able to find a way, as long as he has public opinion behind him.got into this trouble because he was desperate to do a deal last year. He needed a new EU withdrawal agreement to replace the one negotiated by Theresa May that parliament rejected.
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