Four and a half troubled years after the Brexit referendum, it seems proper to mark the passing into law of the UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement.
First, Boris Johnson has done what he said he’d do, at least as far as he and his supporters are now able to say, which is what counts: he can forever boast he took the UK out of the EU. Second, he and the EU managed to avoid “no deal”. That comes as a relief — though as Michael Heseltine has remarked, the same kind of relief with which a condemned man hears his execution has been commuted to life...
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