Will no party admit that Britain blundered on Brexit? | William Keegan

Polling reveals most voters can now see through the referendum's lies much more clearly than their leaders

Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward. / All in the valley of Death, / Rode the six hundred." Why does Tennyson's great poem come to mind as the local garage waits for a spare part to be delivered from Turin to fix a problem with my Fiat?

In pre-Brexit days, thanks to Margaret Thatcher's great achievement in integrating the British economy into the European single market, spare parts for cars, dishwashers - you name it - could be delivered almost overnight thanks to the sophistication of the EU supply chain.