Creative ambiguity may be key to resolving Brexit

More often than not, politics is the art of deliberately fogging up the view while claiming to have cleared the air. And while nothing is guaranteed yet, after three years of Brexit confusion, maybe in the end that political ambiguity was all that was really needed to give people the cover to cut a deal.

That was certainly the overriding impression as it was all smiles when Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British prime minister Boris Johnson left their three-hour behind-closed-doors meeting in Cheshire, England, on Thursday.