Paul Collier

Take back control

The EU has the UK in an impossible bind, but there is something we can do

issue 23 February 2019

Brexit was a mutiny. Like all mutinies, it was driven by anger at authority rather than by a strategy for the future. To date, the consequences have been to deepen polarisation, but triumphant victory for either side is not the way forward. That there is no majority for any of the current options is entirely understandable: they are all awful.

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