Brexit has been sharply in focus again in the aftermath of Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey having offered his tuppence worth on something that, whatever Leavers might claim, is very much an ongoing drag on the UK.

The arch-Brexiters of course want it to be done and dusted. They do not want the UK’s hard Brexit – an absolute folly but not in their minds it seems - to be reversed or ameliorated in any way whatsoever.

Dominic Grieve, the former Conservative MP who spoke eloquently in 2019 about what Brexit would actually mean and called for a second referendum, summed up the lamentable situation rather well.

Commenting a few days after Mr Bailey’s November 14 Mansion House speech, Mr Grieve said: “There is no one who can give a benefit of the UK leaving the European Union. I heard on the radio a businessman saying he had done well from leaving the EU, and my ears pricked up. It turned out his company helped other companies complete the huge amounts of extra paperwork that Brexit had caused.”

He also observed, most accurately, that “the main parties are turning the other cheek on talking about Brexit”.

Mr Grieve was speaking after being announced as co-president of the European Movement UK, the cross-party organisation campaigning on the benefits of close ties between the UK and EU formed in 1949 by Sir Winston Churchill to prevent........

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