The case for a softer Brexit is clear. How to get one is not
With each anniversary, almost everything Remainers feared would happen has come to pass
It was the autumn of 2016 and Brexiteers were still high on the fumes of the eu referendum earlier that year. Everything, they agreed, was going to be terrific. Seventy-five Tory mps called for a new royal yacht to mark Britain’s rebirth. As for the fiddly detail of Britain’s new relationship with the eu, Boris Johnson, then the foreign secretary, had it covered. “Our policy is having our cake and eating it. We are Pro-secco but by no means anti-pasto.”
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Remainers’ cake problem”
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