Former Conservatives Prime Minister, Sir John Major, did not mince his words about Brexit at a Westminster committee meeting. / Speaking in February 2023, he asserted that leaving the European Union has been “a colossal mistake.”

What happens in the next three months, perhaps even the next couple of weeks, is going to shape the fate of the country for decades. If Brexit goes ahead, in any form, it will enact a profound misreading of the nature of the contemporary political and economic world and represent an unprecedented failure of British statecraft.