Brexiteers still hunting for a strategy

Brexit minister David Davis made his triumphant return to Parliament on Monday (5 September), almost 20 years after his previous government job as, ironically enough, John Major’s minister for Europe.

Back then, Davis was the bruiser who had helped force the Maastricht treaty through the UK parliament. Now he’s the man charged with leaving the club.

Anyone expecting the government to have devised the semblance of a plan for negotiating its exit from the EU was disappointed. Davis...