Quick Read By Shafi Musaddique Correspondent
After five years of intense debate, Britain is now finally, fully, out of the European Union. But its departure, when it happened on Jan. 1
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, turned out to be something of an anticlimax.
That’s because the COVID-19 pandemic, and the government’s draconian lockdown response, have knocked everything else off the front pages and out of peoples’ minds. And with the implications of London’s new trade deal with the EU only starting to emerge, it is hard for most voters to judge it yet.
Why We Wrote This
Britain’s most momentous political move for generations took effect this month, but nobody paid much attention. Years of exhausting debate about Brexit, and the COVID-19 crisis, sapped the nation’s interest.