Theresa May’s “red, white and blue” Brexit is long dead, and a bad deal turned out to be better than no deal. The EU will not be supplanted by a great new Europe where British trade flows unimpeded; there are now frictions and barriers, not least in services. As things now stand, Brexit is a pointless gesture, a politics of headlines in which sovereignty is performed by bleating world-beating absurdities. The one good thing to come out of Brexit is the bonfire of national illusions which is about to rage. For Labour, this moment represents a historic political opportunity: a chance to rethink its own past, and write a new history for the British nation.

Source: The Guardian January 01, 2021 07:00 UTC