Hard Brexit has been confounded by some harder realities
by William Keegan from on (#2VFFR)
If the public did not vote to be poorer, as a resurgent chancellor suggests, they must be disturbed by the mounting evidence of looming economic damage
As the true extent of the Brexit farce becomes more apparent, it is now open warfare between the Brexiters, while the rest of the world - with the possible exceptions of Presidents Putin and Trump - look on in sympathetic bewilderment.
One of several satisfactory aspects of the election result was the way that Theresa May and her advisers at No 10 met their comeuppance over their widely leaked plans to sack the chancellor of the exchequer.
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