This is the tribe overwhelmingly responsible for the referendum result, not mainly Labour voters, not the young, but these older folk of the shires. In their migrant-fearing yet migrant-free Tory strongholds, this is what they yearned for. But their vision isn’t Liam Fox’s globalised unfettered free trade: theirs is the drawbridge little England (and Wales) he calls protectionist. “We can go back to making things for ourselves, train up our own people,” hopes Mrs H. They clap every reminder that they are on the stairway to Brexit heaven. [...]
The cards are all in the EU’s hands once article 50 is triggered, with only two years to settle not just exit, but an interim trade deal, pending a tortuous deal with 53 countries the EU already trades with. Every government and a majority of MEPs has to agree – those MEPs who have endured Nigel Farage’s outrageous insults all these years. [...]
Will May’s government stop bribing the old and depriving the young? She promises a government “small, strong and strategic” and size matters: Osborne wanted a very small state, under 35% of GDP, 10% below any equivalent countries. No answers yet.
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