Kerr is so fond of the image that he used it twice, almost a year ago, during a debate in the Upper House. “We will huff and puff but, in the end, we will basically come to heel,” he said. He has been proved right about money (he said that the Government would agree to pay up) but wrong about a bespoke deal (which Theresa May has achieved, like it or not). He later applied the phrase to the prospect of No Deal, claiming that the Government will “come to heel in the end, probably quite quickly”, in order to avoid it. We will discover this year whether, on this third count, he is correct.
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