'Last best chance' for Brexit talks to move

THE latest European Council summit of presidents and prime ministers finished at the weekend with the United Kingdom little closer to a Brexit breakthrough. While all sides now expect significant progress to come before the next EU council meeting in December, the fact is that the negotiations are badly behind schedule in what is already a very tight timetable to exit in March 2019.

As this latest meeting showed, British Prime Minister Theresa May's attempts at taking big steps forward continue to be hamstrung by a lack of any clear, coherent or credible UK government strategy for exiting the EU. If strategy is a balanced combination of ends, ways …