Labour must say it out loud: Brexit needs to be reversed

In Northern Ireland, the Leavers' folly is now manifest. How can the opposition stay silent about the root cause of the crisis?

He did not want to die until Brexit was reversed." These words were spoken at the funeral last week of my dear friend and former Observer colleague Dick Leonard.

Dick died a month ago at the ripe old age of 90. The speaker was his widow, Irene Heidelberger-Leonard, before a group of mourners who included the Labour leader Keir Starmer, to whom Dick had been something of a political mentor.

One wonders whether Cummings now thinks that, on top of all the other well-publicised prime ministerial gaffes, the chaos of Brexit may contribute to Johnson's downfall