This year marks 10 years since the UK voted to leave the European Union, with the intention to “take back control” of our borders, bureaucracy and laws. That divisive decision has, ever since, affected our politics, society and indeed place in the world.

But is it now, with a dwindling economy at home and ever-shifting world order abroad, time to reconsider this decision and rejoin the EU? Columnist Ian Dunt, former CEO of Vote Leave Matthew Elliott and Brussels Correspondent Leo Cendrowicz offer their perspectives.

The most visible consequences of Brexit are also the most banal. They begin in airport halls and ferry terminals, in the shuffling purgatory of “third-country nationals” lanes, where British travellers now wait beneath unfamiliar signs, passports in hand, watching other Europeans glide past. What was once frictionless has become faintly awkward, then irritating, then normalised. Brexit, for many Britons, arrived not as a constitutional rupture but as a thousand small inconveniences.

Yet, those irritants are only the surface expression of something deeper. Over the past five years, leaving the European Union has altered the texture of everyday life in Britain in ways that are now impossible to ignore: at the border, in the workplace, in the cost of food and increasingly in the country’s diminished ability to shape the world around it.

Travel is the easiest place to start, because it is where the........

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