The inevitable failure of Brexit – leaving the world’s biggest free trade area – to deliver on its promises of greater national control and improved living conditions means that the political pot is always bubbling because the proponents of Brexit claim that deeper changes are necessary. Instead of arresting Britain’s slow political and economic decline relative to other countries, Brexit speeded up the process. A striking example of this came in the last few days when a calculation by Bloomberg showed that Britain has dropped behind India as an economic power with India displacing it as the fifth largest economy in the world. More

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