What’s the point of Brexit? We are told it is to take back control, but that is a means to an end: what is the end?
The current answer is another slogan, ‘unleashing Britain’s potential’, which strings together a collection of policies: trade deals with non-EU countries that, to date, largely replicate existing deals; tougher immigration – although the government’s plan will open up the UK to higher levels of immigration from non-EU countries, and has no cap on numbers; taking control of our waters (fishing is about 0.1%
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George Bridges was a Brexit minister from 2016 to 2017.
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