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The White Walkers of Brexit Ride Again
The threat of a no-deal Brexit is increasing by the day.
He looked younger before the referendum.
Photographer: Tolga Akmen/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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It was the moment businesses exhaled and viewers switched the channel. On April 4, the U.K. parliament voted, by a margin of one, to ensure that the country wouldn’t leave the European Union without a deal. Brexit may or may not happen — but there would be no chaotic crashing out because Parliament had vetoed it.
Except, like a White Walker, the death-defying creature in “Game of Thrones,” the threat of no deal keeps coming back. Because it thrives in a leadership vacuum, it is only growing in strength.