Much of the talk that surrounds Brexit these days focuses on the process. Couldn’t it have been easier, just like we were promised? Couldn’t the EU have sat on the same side of the negotiating table as us instead of fighting its own corner? How did Theresa May and Boris Johnson get everything so wrong? In short, why did the whole thing have to be such a shambles?
Time then for an audit.
In the spring of 2016, with the referendum campaign in full swing, a number of factors were uppermost in the minds of British voters. In descending order of importance, I would list them as follows: immigration; a desire to give the Cameron government a kick up the backside; a general feeling that Britain, on its own, would be freer and more prosperous; and the unelected and bureaucratic nature of the European Commission and Court of Justice.
