‘Getting Brexit done’ has led to record migration numbers. So, what now?
In historical terms, however, those transgressions will end up being little more than footnotes. Viewed from afar, Johnson’s greatest failing is liable to be what he hoped would be his glorious legacy: Brexit.
Boris Johnson’s real scandal: Brexit
13/07/2022
Not before time, Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the UK’s Conservative Party. The Guardian reports that Johnson’s leadership “toppled under a wave of sleaze allegations and failure to tell the truth.” But his real scandal lies elsewhere — with Brexit.
There is an air of desperation in attacks from those on the right and their supporters in the press. They fear if Johnson falls, the Brexit deception will crumble too.
Boris Johnson chronically confuses culture and economics of affair called Brexit.
It divided the country, dominated politics for years and delivered the premiership to Boris Johnson. It’s five years ago tomorrow since the Brexit referendum produced its shock 52-48 result in favour of the UK quitting the European Union, and even though it was last year that we actually left, the consequences of that decision still have a long way to run.
A summit crucial to the issue of climate change is instead mired in disentangling the mess of Britain’s exit from the EU
"THIS was the week when the EU stubbornly refused to collapse, yet again. Two much-publicised EU crises did not turn out as the hardline Brexiteers fervently hoped."
Boris Johnson’s government is waging a war of words not against the EU but the British people.
Leaving the EU confronts my former colleagues with a greater challenge than Whitehall has faced for generations.
Brexit is a Tory invention and pro-Europeans must still fight the prospect of EU exile, writes Will Hutton.
The reality is that government resources will be tied up on Brexit for the foreseeable future. Brexit will not be done on January 31 2020
The truth is, it’s more like an egg in a microwave, with his plan exploding and taking a lot of clearing up, Gina Miller writes.
The prime minister’s snappy, inane slogan is the prelude to inevitable lies, betrayal and duplicity.
Of all the myths and falsehoods put out by this government, one of the most egregious is that leaving on 31 October means that ‘we can get Brexit done’.