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   Brexit
   28 December 2020

Brexit is no cause for celebration – this is a moment of national shame

   We are turning our back on the noblest experiment in international
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   The government’s spin machine did its best to portray the Christmas Eve
   Brexit deal as a triumph. Boris Johnson boasted of bringing “good
   tidings of great joy”. Michael Gove anticipated “a new more hopeful
   chapter in our history”. The UK’s chief negotiator David Frost spoke of
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   Express – hailed “Our New Golden Age”.

   In truth the deal falls far short of what the Brexiteers promised.
   Rather than ensuring “frictionless trade” and “the exact same benefits”
   of European Union membership, it will erect barriers that did not
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   sentence”.

   [See also: No EU trade deal can undo the harm Brexit has inflicted on
   the UK​]

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   referendum did little to enlighten them.

   The Brexiteers blamed the EU for problems that were none of its making.
   They relentlessly deployed their sneers, lies and simplistic slogans to
   portray it as a malign and oppressive force, preposterously likening it
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   world we are one of the giants.”

   [See also: Is the government’s Brexit deal any good? Even Boris Johnson
   can’t tell you]
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     * › It’s not Keir Starmer who has a tricky dilemma over Boris
       Johnson’s Brexit deal

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