‘Both sides think their ideal is still in play’published at 23:32 Greenwich Mean Time 15 January 2019
Newsnight political editor Nicholas Watt said he saw smiles on both sides of the Conservative divide after their initial shell-shock at the scale of the defeat subsided.
"I was tipped off about the result before it was announced, went up to one of the leading Brexiteers who said ‘we’ve done much, much better than we thought we’d do… but when it subsided I have to say I saw smiles – smiles on the face of one Remain cabinet minister, smiles on the face of Brexiteers - because both sides think that their ideal Brexit is still in play."