Commentary
Britain’s second thoughts about Brexit are only growing stronger
Most voters now think leaving the EU was a mistake, yet no major politician is willing to reverse course. Why?
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People marching over Westminster Bridge in London on June 20 to campaign for Britain to rejoin the European Union.
PHOTO: AFP
Ten years ago today, the people of Britain voted to leave the European Union. The referendum of June 23, 2016, was a vote against the status quo, an insurgent choice onto which a discontented electorate could pin every grievance which Britain’s political class had ignored.
A decade on since that seminal event, the roles have reversed. Brexit – as the process of leaving the EU came to be known – is itself now the status quo, but the country has quietly turned against it, although no alternative attracts a majority of voters.
