Collapsing public support suggests Brexit is anything but done

Boris Johnson’s critics say his deal with the EU did not achieve the ‘stability and certainty’ he claimed it would. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

The mantra right up to the grisly end was that he had got Brexit “done”.

Boris Johnson’s apparent double miracle was to break the parliamentary impasse that tormented his predecessor Theresa May when trying to pass her withdrawal agreement and then to successfully negotiate a trade deal with the EU in the following 10 months.