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Brexhausted! Four Years of Brexit Blunders, Part One: Defeated by Victory
1 Jan 2021
Britain left the European Union in name in January 2020, but remained subject to the EU, its judges, and its migration regime through a so-called “transition” period. It left in a real sense at 11 pm on December 31st according to supporters of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s exit deal, at least. But how did the country get here?
This is part one of a three-part series.
Brexit has been a marathon, not a sprint. From the campaign to get Britain out of the European Economic Community in the 1975 referendum Prime Minister Ted Heath had taken the country in without consulting the people in 1973 to Thatcher’s Bruges speech in 1988 and the foundation of the Referendum Party and UKIP in the 1990s, it has been a long haul.