While we have rightly focussed on the massive problems that a no-deal outcome to the UK-EU negotiations would create, it’s perfectly possible that Johnson’s strategy is to get a minimalist deal and hope that everyone then heaves a sigh of relief that he has got some kind of deal.

But beware: a minimalist deal is a bad deal. Anything that reduces our access to the single market for our exports and our supply chains (including for food and medicine), to Europol and police co-operation, to EU research programmes (especially medical research), to cross-border road haulage permits, to the EHIC health care card for Brits travelling in the EU, to the ERASMUS student exchange scheme, and to much else, would be damaging to Britain, destroying jobs, reducing security, and inflicting red tape and bureaucracy on businesses and citizens alike.

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