EU officials warn on no-deal Brexit: Fantasy a threat to 50,000 jobs

Iain Duncan Smith’s arrival at Chequers on Sunday in an open-topped Morgan car for a meeting of Brexit’s Praetorian guard seems perfectly symbolic of the fantasies underpinning the entire project.

The Sandhurst-educated 64-year-old arrived in what might be described as a time machine. The Morgan celebrates design ideas the car industry abandoned more than half a century ago.