"The crazy thing is, none of this is a mandatory part of leaving the EU. It wasn't what people were promised during the referendum campaign. Voting against it doesn't mean they are voting against Brexit." theneweuropean.co.uk
Brexit split the country into a polarized state in which facts relating to nearly any subject, from health care to foreign policy, were reduced to props in arguments for leaving or remaining. This legacy of distrust endured as the pandemic emerged. nyti.ms
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain vowed to knit together a country split geographically and generationally by the Brexit debate. But the future now seems uncertain, with restiveness in Scotland and Northern Ireland for leaving the United Kingdom. nyti.ms
European voters have viewed the Brexit process so negatively that even EU-skeptic parties have mostly dropped talk of leaving the bloc or the euro on.wsj.com