It is not coincidental that Britain is about to get its seventh prime minister precisely 10 years after the Brexit referendum. When David Dimbleby declared “we’re out”, the hard-won gains of almost half a century of economic integration were lost in that moment of madness.
Social cohesion, political consensus, democracy, and the rule of law were all vandalised. The party political system barely survived the stresses and strains imposed on it by the Brexit process; even today, the issue remains deeply divisive. The referendum was supposed to settle the issue “for good”. It did no such thing – the most fundamental misjudgement of all.
