“Every one of the Brexit promises is – to quote Henry Fielding – ‘a very wholesome and comfortable doctrine to which (there is) but one objection: namely, that it is not true’”
In a speech only slightly less stormy and disruptive than today's weather (as the 'Beast from the East' sweeps across the UK bringing Scotland's first Met Office 'Red Alert') John Major - a significant actor in the discussions in the early 1990s leading up to the Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland - has fired a broadside directly at Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit policy: