‘No 10’ needs to realise it’s a small state and no longer No 1
HARD Brexit or a soft Brexit? That’s the question that has been repeatedly asked since we woke to the shock news, a year ago next Friday, that the British had voted to leave the EU. But we weren’t framing the question correctly, because what we have been getting, so far, is a fairly bonkers Brexit.
Madness, combined with arrogance, seems to be running through certain sections of the Conservative Party. Britain’s prime minister, Theresa May, appears almost devoid of political instinct and has made a bad situation much worse. She had a reputation for being tough and unflappable, but, as prime minister, she has seemed almost like a cardboard cutout of a political leader — an image that solidified during her disastrous general election campaign.
