Brexit is not over

Boris Johnson used to write a regular column in the Daily Telegraph, and his own paper has quoted David Davis, the Tory government”s former Brexit secretary, as saying: “Brexit is not over”.

Mr Davis led negotiations on the divorce deal. Like many other MP’s, he complained about the complex treaty having to be read thoroughly and ‘checked for traps’, in one day – all one thousand two hundred and forty six pages!

It was an an impossible task.

He said the EU would “use the treaty to its own advantage”, and the government had to be ready for that.

“It’s not perfect – on Northern Ireland, fishing and Gibraltar we have issues to deal with, so it’s not over: all will lead to uncomfortable decisions in the near future.”

He said that in five years, when the transition period on fisheries expires, the EU could try to impose tariffs if it was not happy with the deal offered on fishing, at that point.

At the same time, Boris said Brexit was “not an end, but a beginning.”

He had been told that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer “intends to ask the British people for a mandate to rewrite the deal in 2024. That’s what he wants to do.’

Boris added: “I think frankly we got Brexit done.”


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