Remainers aren’t going to vanish on 31 January. We fight on, sure of our cause | Will Hutton

Brexit is a Tory invention and pro-Europeans must still fight our EU exile

In less than three weeks, Britain leaves the EU. Those vast marches, the crowded public meetings, the indefatigable Remain campaigners, the great speeches, the parliamentary wheeler-dealing and principled resignations were all for nothing. The "get Brexit done" Tories, exploiting the least electable Labour leader ever, won the election and were handed an 80-seat majority. The die is cast.

For the political class, the issue has become toxic. Boris Johnson wants Brexit expunged from the lexicon so that the new normal is for Britain to be wholly outside the EU. Labour, flattened by its epic defeat, is agreed that to be pro-EU is political death. Remain Britain - half the population - has no champion.

Britain is too exposed, too economically and militarily weak and too European to have an independent foreign policy

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