Keith (09 Mar 18 - 09:45 AM):

Two things

A) you cannot demonstrate a person did not say something by pointing out a sentence or two in which they did not say it.

B) more importantly this time, the entire discourse was in the context of converting the December agreements into a legal text.


I disagree by the way there is no need tp say something will not change when you are writing up in a legal text what the nature of a relationship will be. Politically as well, a willingness to hold off starting discussions on trade because you are not prepared to put in law what you say you want can only make people suspicious you are not serious. David Davis' willingness to play with words and backtrack on things he has said before makes it far more difficult to just take people's word.