IF YOU ASK THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE chatbot, ChatGPT, which three politicians are responsible for Brexit, it responds Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and David Cameron.
It is not an unreasonable answer: Johnson for leading the Leave campaign and overseeing Britain’s exit from the European Union as Prime Minister, Farage for his leadership of UKIP and role in shifting public opinion towards Brexit, and Cameron for agreeing to hold a referendum in the first place. Although, reading the detailed response, I get the impression this particular AI programme would not have voted Leave.
A whole host of politicians would make a Brexit top ten: Sir Bill Cash for making the constitutional and legal case over four decades; Dan Hannan for propagating the case in print and public debate over the same period; James Goldsmith for forcing John Major and Tony Blair to promise a referendum in the event of Britain joining the Euro; Douglas Carswell for
