Heinz is expanding a huge factory in the UK. Tesla is reportedly scouting the north for locations for a new car or battery plant. Even the pound is bouncing to three-year highs.
It has been a difficult few weeks for some hardcore Remainers. Still, at least there is finally something to cheer them up. Tim Martin, the pugnacious founder of the pub chain JD Wetherspoon argued today that the government should relax immigration rules to ease a shortage of labour.
For the dwindling band of believers in the EU, it was a gotcha moment. At last, one of the leading backers of our departure from the EU was experiencing some ‘Bre-mourse’. ‘Brexit fantasies succumb to Brexit reality,’ tweeted the former editor of the Financial Times Lionel Barber. ‘You couldn’t make this up!’, said Gina Miller. Tim Martin was trending on social media – and so was the ‘Brexit Reality’ hashtag.
For the dwindling band of believers in the EU, it was a gotcha moment
But hold on: there is nothing hypocritical about Martin’s position.
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