Shortly after Prime Minister Theresa May announced her resignation on May 24, an unnamed former British “cabinet minister” levelled with Foreign Policy’s Owen Matthews: “The [Conservative Party] membership are all Brexiteers. The next leader has to be a hard Brexiteer. But it’s totally obvious that nobody is going to get a different deal [from Brussels] to the one that May’s already got.” All of May’s likely successors as Conservative leader and prime minister are promising a new deal with the EU that’s “somehow keeps all the advantages of membership without the pain … That’s simply undeliverable,” the former ... (full story)