The entire pitch for Brexit in 2016 was that the sovereignty gains in leaving the EU would make the UK more economically prosperous and more politically stable than the EU.
That's the Leave Campaign's benchmark for establishing success or failure.
The way greater sovereignty from the EU became inextricably linked in the Leave Campaign's pitch with greater prosperity in comparison to the EU is one of the reasons why Soft Brexit as a balanced compromise to ensure UK stability became squeezed out of contention after 2016
Also interesting to look back at the Vote Leave manifesto and see what is still highlighted now and what isn't mentioned. A new European institutional architecture assumes a lot about the UK's power and leverage over the EU as well as about EU weakness
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Basically an excerpt from the Cummings blog
Kind of awesome in how wrong this bit gets everything
Classic Dom.
I guess he never did the Europe and the Wider World paper while building his anti-establishment credentials at Exeter College, Oxford
It is interesting though how justifications of the specific Brexit pathway taken now by Cummings, Gove, Frost and Johnson are increasingly detached from the Brexit outcomes that were presented as just in reach during the referendum campaign in 2016
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