The politics of personalities: how three bad behaviours shaped Brexit
By Matt Ross on 06/04/2021
‘You sure about this?’ German premier Angela Merkel listens to May during the new UK PM’s first overseas visit in July 2016. Credit: Tom Evans/Number 10/Flickr
Analysis: Politics may be fought in the language of principles and philosophies, but personality often decides the victor. Digging through a new set of interviews on Britain’s Brexit journey, Matt Ross picks out three ill-judged behaviours that fatally undermined the efforts of political leaders
In the run-up to the June 2016 EU referendum, the Leave campaign pledged to return full sovereignty to the UK without weakening economic ties to the Continent. The UK would be part of “a European free trade zone from Iceland to the Russian border”, said Vote Leave, providing “tariff-free trade with minimal bureaucracy.”
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