Theresa May’s bizarre speech leaves the United Kingdom on the verge of a no-deal Brexit

In a statement that at times bore an only cursory relationship to reality, May further decreased her own room for flexibility.

By Stephen Bush

Theresa May has rounded on the European Commission and her fellow heads of government in a speech which takes the United Kingdom ever closer to leaving the European Union without a deal.

The Prime Minister, whose proposals for the final Brexit deal have no realistic prospect of winning a majority in Parliament or winning support in the European Union, called on European member states to lay out their own proposals for the final EU-UK relationships in an astonishing statement that at times appeared to be barely adjacent to reality.