, Columnist
Brexit Realism Hasn’t Erased Brexit Divisions
Leavers no longer expect an economic boost, but they still prefer to be out.
Divided they stand.
Photograph: Bloomberg
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Having dominated U.K. politics for the last two years, you might think that all of the news about Brexit would have led some Brits to change their minds one way or the other. Indeed polls have shown that something like three-quarters of Brits think that their government is handling the U.K.’s exit from the EU badly.
Yet when it comes to the big picture questions of whether Brexit was the right or wrong decision, or how people would vote in a hypothetical rerun of the first vote, the movement has been glacial.