Just two days short of Christmas, 23 December marks another, less pleasant anniversary – six months since Britain voted to leave the European Union. A few weeks after that, I co-founded the Vote Leave Watch campaign to hold the Leave campaigners to account, particularly those who found themselves in the new government, with the power to fulfil the promises they made during the campaign.
With this extraordinary year coming to a close, let’s look at those promises that were made by the likes of Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and Michael Gove, and measure them against the reality, six months on. What you will see is that the last six months have been characterised by broken promises, cold reality contrasting with their blithe assurances, and an arrogant belief that the British people have forgotten about the pledges made during the Brexit campaign.
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