Stark choice now is stay or just go — nothing else will stick

Brexit is a crisis but not because politicians can’t come to a compromise. Clive Crook says the real problem is that no workable compromise exists

The root of the Brexit crisis is not, as you might think, the failure of the hard-Brexit Tories to compromise. Rather, it’s that no good compromise exists. For three years, Britain’s politicians have refused to face this, arguing endlessly and pointlessly about how to split the difference between Remain and Leave, imagining they can find a palatable soft Brexit.