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Rishi Sunak Must Detoxify Brexit to Save Himself
A thaw in UK-EU relations is the UK prime minister’s best hope of political survival.
A fresh start?
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During his Sunday morning broadcast rounds, Michael Gove, the arch-Brexiteer and now UK cabinet secretary in charge of leveling up, repeated a claim he’d made countless times before: Brexit, he said, had been “a significant success for this country.”
Even a veteran spinner like Gove struggled to sustain the assertion. “What planet has this lunatic been living on?” asked British lawyer and vlogger Peter Stefanovic in a viral video detailing all the ways Brexit has exacerbated economic weaknesses.