Brexit strategy vacuum filled by useful idiots and aural valium

Anger management therapy for arch leavers was all the European scrutiny committee could offer

You could say it was all a bit previous. With Theresa May's inner cabinet off to Chequers in the afternoon to see if it could agree - if only for a day or so - on a vaguely plausible Brexit negotiating strategy, it was expecting a lot of the junior Brexit minister Robin Walker and Tim Barrow, the UK's ambassador to the EU, to provide any great clarity on the government's position before the European scrutiny select committee in the morning.

There again, even on the off-chance that the prime minister were to come up with some sort of Brexit Santa list later in the day, it would be highly unlikely that anyone would bother to tell Walker. Or if they did, that he would understand. So there was as much to be gained from grilling him before as after.