Ken Clarke on Brexit: “No one voted for these things. A lot of Brexiters thought we should never leave the single market, of which Margaret Thatcher’s government was the architect. It was only supposed to have been about getting out of political Europe.” https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/tim-walker-interviews-ken-clarke/
After Brexit, “the argument the British have used to grab Europe as an exclusive market will then be over,” said Carolyn Reidy, Simon & Schuster’s CEO, at the Frankfurt Book Festival last year https://nyti.ms/2GTsKVr