Britain is being consumed by Brexit more than Covid

Brexit and the pandemic are morphing into a political demon that now risks slipping out of the control of Boris Johnson's government

UK Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt: Her speech on Brexit in the US last month has been described as 'bonkers'

When Brexit and the coronavirus blurred into a political fog engulfing Britain last year, at the centre of it inevitably stood the leader who has been defined by both.

Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson stuck to the line that his country was at a turning point, on the cusp of a return to greatness after leaving the EU. A shortage of critical workers, supply chain disruption and a rollercoaster resurgence of virus infections were bumps in the road on the journey to his much-vaunted “Global Britain”.