Three years have now passed since the UK left the European Union. But to date a conspiracy of silence has prevailed among Britain’s political parties about the consequences of that decision.
The Conservatives now seldom mention Brexit because they do not want to be held responsible for its failures. Labour seldom mentions Brexit because it does not want to be charged with devising an alternative. Even the Liberal Democrats are shy of advertising that their official policy is for the UK to rejoin the EU.
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