Back in June, the actor Danny Dyer spoke for Britain when he declared Brexit was “like a mad riddle that no one knows what it is”. The country has been watching perplexed as the simple 2016 referendum instruction to “leave the European Union” has been turned by politicians into a journey through a political labyrinth which seems to have no exit. There is a real prospect that every possible solution to the Brexit riddle will be voted down by Parliament as various opportunistic factions combine against it. This is a great failure of political leadership and imagination. Theresa May failed to steer her ship in any particular direction, allowing herself to be blown to left and right. As her options ran out, she engineered a cabinet agreement, the so-called Chequers deal, which two key players, her foreign secretary and her Brexit secretary, then repudiated. The Conservative Party across the land is dismayed by it. And Brussels does not like the sound of it either.
05 September 2018, The Tablet
Divided Britain: who will end the Brexit mess?
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