Mayor of London attacks Brexit: "Enormous damage, no more denial"

Open attack by the Labor mayor of London,

, on Brexit, or at least on the "hard" version of the exit from the EU imposed in his words by the last Conservative governments on the United Kingdom after the victory of "Leave" in the referendum of 2016.

The occasion is a public intervention in which Khan -

- today takes aim at the Tories, accusing them of having inflicted "immense damage" on the country.

But he also indirectly criticizes the leader of his party, Keir Starmer, invoking a possible rethink at least on a softer Brexit: that is, on

.

Perspectives that Starmer has recently excluded, pledging not to reopen a "closed" debate and not to rekindle the divisions of the past, and to want to "make Brexit work" if he becomes prime minister through a generic better relationship with the EU.

Khan, on the other hand, uses much stronger words.

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"It - he adds - has weakened our economy, torn the internal union (among the nations of the Kingdom), diminished our reputation".

Something that, according to him, can still be "remedied", but on the condition of returning to "a greater alignment with our European neighbours, of turning from this hard and extreme Brexit to a manageable version that is at the service of our economy and of our population".

He goes on - concludes - that it should include "a pragmatic debate on the benefits of rejoining (from outside the EU) the single market and the customs union".

Recent polls have signaled among the British a growing disappointment with the results and failed promises of Brexit, against the backdrop of discontent fueled also by the global crisis.

A sentiment shared at this stage even by a relative majority of pro-divorce voters in 2016, according to a latest survey.

And for which some media and analysts have coined a neologism, "

": crasis between Brexit and regret (in English 'regret' or 'repentance').