In the never-ending Brexit Wars saga, reality is finally fighting back | Rafael Behr

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Kemi Badenoch was calling Monday's gathering of EU leaders in London a "surrender summit" before there was even an agreement to denounce.
50% : Voters can see that, in the world of Trump and Putin, Britain's future is European.
49% : He accepts the logic that favourable terms of trade with a huge continental bloc require regulatory alignment, and that streamlining the process - restoring more automatic recognition of common standards - is not a dissolution of national sovereignty tantamount to treason.
45% : It is the plot of Brexit Wars: Origin Stories - the sting of humiliation through post-imperial decline that made accession to the European Economic Community a necessity in 1973; the edifice of rebate and opt-outs that preserved a culture of transactional separateness; the evolution of conspiracist Europhobic mythologies in the press over many years and the cowardice of successive prime ministers in refusing to confront them.
44% : For decades, the facts to support an argument that Britain was stronger in the EU were submerged in a swamp of national neurosis - the inferiority complex manifest as self-aggrandising exceptionalism.
40% : The Reset is based on the true story of a prime minister negotiating improved terms of trade with the EU, against a backdrop of global insecurity and rising economic uncertainty.
36% : The big plot twist this time is a Labour government that is prepared to say aloud that Brexit inflicted harm on the UK economy, and that closer relations with European neighbours are in the national interest.
33% : So the continuity leave argument seems to be that even more of Johnson's Brexit is a reversal of Brexit.
33% : Instead, leave and remain became proxies for other cultural and economic divisions that could never be settled by Brexit.
14% : Donald Trump is an unreliable ally and Vladimir Putin is a determined foe.

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