Asked if the government still believes no deal is better than a bad deal, Brexit minister Steve Baker sensibly replied:

“What we can’t do is accept some kind of punishment deal, and I certainly think that the environment in which the United Kingdom trades with the world, in the context of controlling our own tariffs, our own taxes, our own domestic regulation, is an environment of which we should not be afraid.”

Those pro-Remain pundits eating their words again…