This Brexit deal is no 'breakthrough'. It is a complete capitulation

Press quote (The Telegraph)
08 December 2017

On November 29, Charles Grant, of the well-informed anti-Brexit think tank the Centre for European Reform, published his 10 predictions for the whole Brexit process. Within eight days, his first four – on Ireland, money, citizens’ rights and transition – have been proved correct.On citizens’ rights, for example, he foretold that: “May will accept that the Withdrawal Treaty, enshrining the rights of EU citizens, has greater legal force than any subsequent UK legislation. And she will agree that UK courts may refer cases on rights to the ECJ.”

That is exactly what she has done. So, although she promised to take back control of our law, the EU court will remain supreme in an important area of our life after we have left (with its judgments affecting our case law long after the eight-year limit).

...Mr Grant’s remaining predictions include that Britain will ask for a bespoke economic partnership and that the EU will refuse; that the EU will try to force us to stick with its regulatory model; that the City of London will be damaged; and that we will, in the end, be offered some sort of trade deal, because the EU doesn’t want the embarrassment of everything unravelling. I see little reason, on present form, to doubt his prescience.