Sunday Brexit

You can tell when Brexit is not going well, at least one of its cheerleading papers fails to mention it on the front page. The Sunday Mail leads with the Duchess of Sussex's Father and their letters.

The Sunday Times, the one time paper of record, leads with "Sack me if you dare, Johnson will tell the Queen!. Thing is, as I may have mentioned before, she won't have to, a new PM that the Commons can unite behind would replace Johnson, without the Queen having to do anything. Had there been a VoNC back in July on a potential Johnson premiership, it is likely he would never have become PM in the first place.

The Sunday Torygraph, the official Johnson fanzine, leads with Johnson will sabotage EU if forced to delay. But the EU has robust structures in place, and even if the budget is blocked, the existing one will carry on. This makes the UK seem ever more like a petulant child. Can our international standing get any lower?

The Sunday Express leads with more fantasy: Johnson: MPs DO back my new Brexit deal. Even if that were true, the EU would have to back it too to make it viable, and it was laughed out of court. In general, what is acceptable to MPs would not be acceptable to the EU, and vice versa. So, round we go again and again.

And this morning its the weekly politics shows, and those Ministers who spoke out against no deal and no prorogation a mere few weeks ago will be trotted out to defend the indefensible.