The foreign secretary flew at our expense to lie to young students in Japan, in order to appeal to old Tories at home.

The next, Brexit-induced recession will be most painful for poorer households, who are also those that voted Leave in greatest numbers.

No Conservative will dare admit the searingly obvious: Brexit is proving a catastrophe for Britain.

Jeremy Hunt’s comments show how far we are from a rational debate about the economic consequences of leaving the EU.

We are stuck in the Tory game of make-believe that everything is coming up roses in an English country garden. The reality is that following Brexit the rest of the world looks at England with a mixture of perplexity, pity, and amused contempt.

Everyone can see that it is failing, but pretending it can work is a precondition for positions of authority.

Brexit denialist-in-chief Jacob Rees-Mogg is still in full flow. He denies that any harm has come from Brexit – even though he can’t find any benefits.

Brexit's the elephant in the room that can be avoided no longer when quitting the European Union plunges a Disunited United Kingdom deeper into economic horror.

Paul Routledge on the everyday nightmare that Brexit is fast becoming, and now with EU business decreasing sharply, what's next for the Tories - aka the Brexit Party?

Brexit was always going to be a recipe for the long-term decline of London as a financial centre Any ideas that suggested otherwise were ludicrous.