No hint of contrition or constructiveness in article by Lord Frost and Brandon Lewis... just menace.

That vote -- five years ago Wednesday -- was supposed to settle the United Kingdom's perennial neurosis over its relationship with Europe once and for all. It did nothing of the sort.

Even the keenest Brexiteer must feel that the process has been tortuously long. / That has been, in large part, because successive British governments have refused to accept the trade-off between untrammelled sovereignty and friction-free access to the EU’s single market, a refusal that shapes today’s increasingly testy relationship.

The PM is reportedly considering bypassing the Northern Ireland protocol so British sausages can continue to be sold there.