Forget the Brexit deal – the Political Declaration will keep us locked in a battle with the EU for decades

The excitement over how many MPs will vote this way or that on the prime minister’s Brexit deal has obscured the fact that whatever words are finally agreed, a Brexeternity of difficult, tetchy negotiations lie ahead for at least a decade as the UK and EU try and fashion a new modus vivendi.

Take for example the fourth of 147 paragraphs in the United Kingdom or read the original