Brexit cost us the only good thing Margaret Thatcher did | William Keegan

Now that the UK has been taken out of trade zone, we are left only with the damage she wreaked on the British polity

Both chancellor Jeremy Hunt and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves went to the annual Davos World Economic Forum last week proclaiming that Britain was open to business".

These mundane statements of the obvious reminded me of the character in one of Michael Frayn's novels who had an open mind - open at the front and open at the back".