Let Raab take control

IN a blistering parting shot, the outgoing chief of staff at the Brexit department accuses Olly Robbins – the Europhile zealot civil servant behind last week’s dismal Chequers compromise – of pursuing a ‘Hotel California Brexit’.

Thus, Stewart Jackson invokes the words of the Eagles’ hit: ‘You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave!’

Is this to be our fate, with Mr Robbins now ‘running the show’ and the new Brexit Secretary sidelined, like the last?

Dominic Raab, who replaces David Davis, is a highly intelligent and able lawyer, with a strong mind of his own. A profound Eurosceptic, he has made the EU his special study for years.

It will be an outrage if the appeasers and obfuscators in the Civil Service obstruct his quest to secure the best deal for Britain.