This is confused. Neighbouring developed countries with huge trade/personal links usually do have a “special relationship” (involving elements of common trade regulation, generous mobility provisions etc) while fully respecting each other’s sovereignty.
https://twitter.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1494246976728313860
See Australia/NZ for an obvious example.
Nor are such arrangements incompatible with maintaining “global interests”, as Frost asserts.
The fact is that the current government chose to have a dysfunctional and thin TCA. That was its choice (though certainly not one dictated by the referendum result).
But that choice was not dictated by “global interests”.
Nor was it dictated by any plausible account of “sovereignty”. Rather, the current government’s (and Frost’s) approach to sovereignty is like the miser’s approach to money: something you obsessively hoard but never use, even for your own benefit.
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