Despite what I regard as aa piece of total daftness, Brexit is done.
We will never know whether it was a success - we failed to define success/failure criteria before we left, Covid would inevitably be used as a reason for failure (if indeed it has failed), it was inevitable some issues would be left unresolved, and that unforeseen issues would emerge.
Tories cannot admit failure - electoral suicide, an admission of gross misjudgement.
Labour have the red wall and some elements of the party equally split. Labour lost the last election in part because they had no coherent Brexit policy.
If we did try to re-join in the next 5-10 years there is no certainty of re-admission, any deal struck would almost certainly be worse than the deal we had, and the UK would have a further 5 years of destructive EU distraction.
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