Neil Carmichael was MP for Stroud from 2010 until 2017. So there is a deal between the EU and the UK. It is ‘thin’ and does invite further and, possibly, endless negotiation as politics and economics evolve but, looking forward, how will this new ‘settlement’ condition the Conservative and Labour parties? Both have, quite literally, convulsed between the referendum campaign in 2016 and the passing of the ‘Christmas Eve Deal’ by Parliament just before New Year’s Eve.