Why Brexit compromise hasn’t defused political tensions in Britain
Two years after Britain voted in a highly charged referendum to leave the European Union, its government this week agreed to a draft treaty with the EU to make that choice happen. But the deal has still not resolved deep divisions here over what Brexit could, or should mean.
This week’s political chaos in London, replete with ministerial resignations, has exposed the tensions between full-throated calls for unfettered British sovereignty and the reality of Britain’s economic dependence on the EU, which is its closest and largest trading partner.
On Wednesday, as Theresa May urged her reluctant cabinet to back the agreement, scores
Squaring the circle‘Brit-politics’ dilemma
