Here is the story of the Strasbourg May - Juncker meeting, accoding to UK cabinet office minister Lidington anyway:
The gist is:
- PM has secured legally binding changes that strengthen and improve withdrawal agreement
- a joint legally binding instrument and a joint statement
- joint instrument also puts letter from Tusk and Juncker onto legally binding footing
- legal assessment of attorney general will be available in good time before Tuesday's debate says tomorrow the house will vote on this improved deal
Which all sounds good and happy.
Yeah, right.
Even if this Lidington chap is not trotting out a pile of b/s this all has to go to the UK parliament Tuesday for a vote. The vote is the next risk. The Commons has so far not shown much inclination to support anything from PM May. But, hey, maybe this time its different, right?
Anyway, GBP has surged a big figure during the thin-liquidity time (backed off a little now):
