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Theresa May had demanded to discuss divorce and trade in parallel, yet was forced to back down. (Photo: Reuters/Peter Nicholls)

May's Florentine foray: A step towards irrelevance?

When Theresa May selected Florence as the setting for her major speech on Brexit last Friday (22 September), she did so for its cultural and historic significance.

In the birthplace of the Renaissance, the UK prime minister hoped to regenerate the Brexit process by striking a conciliatory tone and appealing to both sides' sense of economic rationality.

In practice, May outlined a series of concessions, which, while light ...

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Theresa May had demanded to discuss divorce and trade in parallel, yet was forced to back down. (Photo: Reuters/Peter Nicholls)

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