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All too predictable.

— A key rule of politics is that you need to ‘be in the room’ and Brexit Britain isn’t, at least metaphorically and sometimes literally.

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Partygate, populism and Brexit.

— Partygate doesn’t mean that we’ve seen the end of the populist politics that underpinned and flowed from Brexit, still less of Brexit itself. It may not even mean the end of Johnson, whose fate remains precariously in the balance.

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Will Truss press the re-set button?

— As the false claims made about the benefits of Brexit are gradually being found out, Brexit isn’t suffering from a failure to control the narrative. It’s suffering from failure, Professor Chris Grey writes.

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Brexiters now worry about the judgment of history.

— Professor Chris Grey’s analysis on the recent spate of Brexiter anxiety about Brexit realities, the conundrum this poses for Boris Johnson, and why it matters so much to Brexiters – and to all of us.

Analysis

Brexit returns to its roots.

— Professor Chris Grey unpicking Frost’s resignation, and arguing that it shows how Brexit events and policy are once again entirely about the toxic internal politics of the Conservative Party.

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Brexit: What the UK/EU customs changes mean for businesses from January 1.

— For a government that was elected on the motto of “getting Brexit done”, it is perhaps not so surprising that so little has been said about the upcoming changes.

EU Citizens

Home Office sued for breach of the Withdrawal Agreement.

— On Wednesday, the Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens’ Rights Agreements (IMA) launched a lawsuit against the Home Office for breaching the terms of the Withdrawal Agreements for people who have been granted pre-settled status.

Analysis

Not my Brexit.

— Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis. As the damage they have caused quietly mounts, some leading Brexiters are saying “it’s not my Brexit” whilst others say that we must wait decades to judge – both are ways of avoiding accountability.

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Brexit discredited.

— Brutal but fair, Professor Chris Grey’s Brexit analysis of the strange case of Thatcherite Brexiters and the incoherent post-Brexit strategy their misunderstandings of markets and regulation have led to.

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The joke isn’t funny anymore.

— Boris Johnson’s reputation may have reached a tipping point, but ‘Brexitification’ is pervasive and nowhere more evident than in the vile politics of the cross-channel migration tragedy.

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A pause to reflect.

— With the Northern Ireland Protocol talks looking set to continue, some reflections on how narratives of the success and failure of Brexit are developing and how these will eventually coalesce into a ‘received image’.

Stratford-upon-Avon

Brexit. Assessing the mood in Stratford-upon-Avon.

— A sizable proportion of the British public has resisted the Eurosceptic propaganda over the years and retained a healthy scepticism not towards the EU, but towards our present government.

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Trade war looms over article 16 – The Northern Ireland protocol safeguard, explained.

— The UK is threatening to trigger Article 16. What is the Northern Ireland protocol ‘emergency brake’?

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Welcome to Brexit 2.0.

— Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis, looking at different scenarios arising from the Article 16 threat, how that threat is an attempt to re-run the Brexit process and the political implications of doing so for Johnson and for Labour.

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Owen Paterson’s role in Brexit.

— Paterson’s career as an MP has ended in disgrace, although he may well continue to play his part in the ‘Brexitosphere’ of thinktanks and pressure groups in which he has had so prominent a role before and after Brexit.

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Where stands support for Brexit now?

— A new post-Brexit Poll of Polls currently shows 51% are in favour of being part of the EU and 49% against.