The City has moved on from Brexit |
Whisper it, but Brexit is slowly inserting itself back into our national conversation.
We remain, thankfully, a long way from the frenzied tribalism of the referendum campaign or the energy-sapping parliamentary drama that followed, but while these days Nigel Farage may be more interested in small boats than backstops, the issues is being discussed – with varying degrees of enthusiasm – as we approach the ten year anniversary of the vote.
Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a closer relationship with the Single Market, though not membership of it. Ministers have trumpeted the UK’s return to the Erasmus student scheme, despite it being an inferior arrangement to the UK’s own post-Brexit Turing scheme. Now the focus is on agricultural trade, with the........