It is now more than nine years since the UK electorate voted for Brexit but the issue - most justifiably given the damage it is causing to the economy and living standards - remains firmly in the headlines.

Businessman and former mayor of the City of New York Michael Bloomberg last Monday declared Brexit was “the single stupidest thing any country’s ever done”.

It would surely be easy to make the argument that he hit the nail on the head.

After all, it is certainly not wise decision-making which is behind a move to cause major damage to your economy.

Mr Bloomberg, who was visiting his eponymous company’s Dublin offices exactly nine years after the UK’s referendum, added of Brexit: “It’s hard to believe how they did it.”

It is indeed difficult to believe, as the nightmare continues.

Mr Bloomberg’s comments evoked memories of what Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Glasgow, had to say about Brexit in the aftermath of the vote.

Sir Anton told the Scottish Government Brexit Summit for Further and Higher Education back in November 2018: “I’ve previously referred to our impending exit from the EU as ‘the most unhinged example of national self-sabotage in living memory’.

“Nothing has........

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