Can Brexit be stopped as the elites claimed?

For months after the Leave victory in the referendum, I was being accosted – no, I should say graciously approached – by members of the business and banking community who would make helpful suggestions as to what I might write on the subject. Their advice was invariably the same: this is never going to happen.

Our elites have always believed Brexit could be stopped. I’m starting to think they’re right – Janet Daley – The Telegraph

They would assure me, with sublime confidence, that whatever was being said by the politicians and the official negotiators, the UK was not going to leave the European Union – not in any meaningful sense, at any rate. They did not put it quite like this, of course, but what they implied was that the forces that held power over matters of economic life and death would see to it that the absolute severance of Britain from the EU which the population believed it had voted for would be effectively prevented. Back then, I didn’t believe them. I do now.

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Janet Daley was born in America, and taught philosophy before beginning her political life on the Left (before moving to Britain, and the Right, in 1965) – all factors that inform her incisive writing on policy and politicians.