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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Is Brexit finally done, or is everyone just done with Brexit?

Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen at the Windsor Guildhall on Monday.
Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen at the Windsor Guildhall on Monday. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Getting Brexit done. Again. We’ve been here before. Theresa May thought she had a solution to Northern Ireland with the Chequers agreement. That lasted only a few days. Boris Johnson had the lie of the “oven-ready” protocol. That was enough to win him a general election – mainly because the Tories were so desperate they were prepared to sign up to any old fantasy – but fell apart soon afterwards when people bothered to look at the detail.

Now we have Rishi Sunak’s Windsor framework. To fix the Boris nonsense. The likeliest contender yet. Not least because everyone is so fed up with Brexit – no one wants reminding of what a disaster it has been – that even the hardest of hardliners can’t be bothered to oppose it.

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