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The decision is doubly awkward for Davis, who removed his name from a legal challenge to the rules after being promoted to Theresa May’s cabinet. There could “still be some frosty moments in cabinet” after the decision, said Ian Bond of the CER.

Charles Grant, a member of the Scottish government’s advisory Standing Council on Europe, said a special deal would be “extremely difficult” given the legal complexity and lack of support from the UK government. “It would be legally possible for Scotland to have control over immigration that would allow freedom of movement, but politically Mrs May would be highly unlikely to go for it,” said Mr Grant, the director of the CER.

Charles Grant, the director of the pro-EU Centre for European Reform think-tank, said if that was the kind of deal the government wanted, a showdown with hard-line Brexiteers was necessary. “There will have to be a transitional period in which we stay in the single market and the customs union, pay into the EU budget, accept ECJ rulings and, probably, accept free movement,” he said.

John Springford, director of research at the Centre for European Reform, writes that while remaining in the customs union may appear to the best way to minimise the economic costs of Brexit while ‘taking back control’, the customs union and the single market are not easy to disentangle, and the EU-27 would demand a high price for an arrangement that eliminates costly customs charges and checks.

Mens vestlige medier har forsøgt at sondre mellem etablerede terrorgrupper som Islamisk Stat eller det tidligere Jabhat al-Nusra, der har direkte links til al-Qaeda, og Syriens mange andre oprørsgrupper som Den Frie Syriske Hær, har russiske medier haft en tendens til at dele borgerkrigen op i to grupper: én for og én imod Assad-regeringen, siger Ruslandsekspert Ian Bond, udenrigsdirektør i tænketanken Centre for European Reform i London. »Det folkelige narrativ er, at det er en kamp imod terrorisme, og alle, der kæmper imod Assad, beskrives som terrorister,« siger han.

“2016 has been a shock with Brexit, Trump, the Turkish coup and terrorist attacks,” said Camino Mortera-Martinez, a Brussels-based research fellow of the Centre for European Reform. “But 2017 will be the year when we start seeing what these shocks mean for Europe and the world.”