We are now 25 months on from Britain’s exit from the EU. Yet Brexit remains undone. The messy economic consequences are still unravelling, arrangements for Northern Ireland remain unclear, and the government has embarked on a mission to find hidden legislative “opportunities” lurking in the Brexit bushes.
Foreign secretary Liz Truss may be talking tough on Russia, but she is speaking softly on the UK’s endless row with the EU. With the Ukraine crisis absorbing all attention, the Northern Ireland Protocol issue appears to have been quietly placed on the back burner.
