Can Boris keep the Brexit bus on course?
Tempus fugit — time flies as the British government has just 15 days to come up with a Brexit plan
British politics increasingly looks like a runaway red London double-decker bus about to smash through the balustrade of Westminster Bridge and plunge into the Thames.As it was Boris Johnson who, during his time as mayor of London, rammed through a new two-crew bus design (now derisively nicknamed the "Boris Bus") to replace the capital’s evocative, dearly loved but expensive and "unsafe" Routemasters, the metaphor is apt.Dawn has broken, it seems, on the Brexit hardliners as they realise that — as the Latin-quoting prime minister himself might have said — tempus fugit. Time is, indeed, flying. The British government has 15 days to come up with a plan that will prevent the UK from crashing out of the EU without a deal on October 31.That might explain why both the European Research Group and the Democratic Unionist Party have indicated they will consider a deal that involves including the troublesome Irish backstop they have, until now, firmly rejected.That is just as well for Johnso...
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