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Departure of Boris Johnson: the Brexit champion will remain marked by the heavy toll of his project

2022-07-07T16:00:49.065Z


ANALYSIS - The UK is suffering from the same problems as comparable economies: inflation, a slowdown in activity linked to the war in Ukraine, shortages of products and labour. But these are exacerbated by the radical break with the European Union.


If Boris falls

,

Brexit

falls,”

assured

Michael Heseltine, Europhile “old lion” of the Conservative Party, himself the architect of the fall of Margaret Thatcher because of her anti-European positions.

Boris Johnson is so identified with the audacious adventure of Brexit that, with its fall, the British will indeed have to make essential choices for their future.

The assessment of the radical break with the European Union, decided by referendum in 2016 and implemented at the start of 2021, is beginning to appear in broad daylight, after having been drowned in the economic stall due to the pandemic.

At 54%, the British consider that Brexit

is "going badly"

, compared to 16% who still believe in its benefits, according to a YouGov poll on June 28.

That Boris Johnson very seriously recently created a “

Brexit opportunities

” ministry seemed bitingly ironic.

The UK suffers from the same problems as comparable economies: inflation

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Source: lefigaro

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