At a “secret” meeting over the weekend, the Levelling Up Secretary was "very honest" about the shortcomings of Brexit. / In October last year, Michael Gove admitted of Brexit: “I ask myself all the time, ‘was it the right thing to do?’”

Many Conservative party members will be wondering where they go from here. / There is talk of damage limitation and trying to save as many seats as possible in the next election.

Shortages in the labour market, along with the vacancies in the health service, hospitality industry and agriculture, are the living evidence of this self-inflicted act

As part of our special edition looking at five years since the EU referendum, Alastair Campbell looks at the silence of the Leavers.

“Australian Brexit” used to be an upbeat euphemism for a “no deal” Brexit outcome. Now, Australia promises a far more profound insight into the true nature of Brexit.

A major feature of the 2016 Leave campaign was a refusal to define what, precisely, Brexit would mean.

In a 1940 essay, George Orwell made a number of what I think were some astute observations about the qualities of the English ruling class. He saw them as patriotic but “impenetrably stupid”. / “What is to be expected of them is not treachery or physical cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.”

Meanwhile, in the real world, we have seen a catastrophic slump, by 41%, of all our exports to the Continent. / Trade between Welsh ports and Ireland (which remains in the single market) has seen a decline of 50% in Holyhead, and 40% in Pembrokeshire.

In 2020, the appointment of David Frost as UK Brexit Chief Negotiator – not as a minister, not as a civil servant, but as a special adviser – raised a set of accountability issues once the Department for Exiting the EU was abolished.

The EU blundered over vaccines and Northern Ireland, but the UK is deep in denial about the deal it has signed.

My former Conservative colleagues: ask yourselves what Boris Johnson has achieved, and heed the damning answer

The corruption of constitutional order can happen very quickly and reversing it can take a very long time and at huge cost.

'Would we have won without immigration? No. Would we have won without...the NHS? All our research and the close result strongly suggests no. Would we have won by spending our time talking about trade and the single market? No way'

While businesses struggle with the red tape of no-deal planning, ministers are busy with commemorative coins.