Brexit is a crisis, not an opportunity. But we’ll see that too late | William Keegan

The language of Leave is already shifting from optimism to realism, but awareness of what awaits us is dawning too slowly

The prime minister tells us he wants to bring the country together. This is rich from the politician who made a major contribution to tearing it apart.

In theory, Johnson is monarch of all he surveys: the British political system resembles, in Lord Hailsham's famous phrase, an elective dictatorship. And Johnson already manifests dictatorial tendencies.

It is likely to be a slow-burning crisis, and the real culprits will continue to blame the EU