As the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote looms large, it should really be of no surprise to anyone that this folly and its major effects on the UK economy remain firmly in the spotlight.

Die-hard Brexiters might have thought nearly a decade ago, after the June 23, 2016 vote, that the issue was done and dusted or would be soon.

They certainly very much wanted that to be the case, telling anyone who would listen and also many who were not really interested in hearing the Leavers’ fantastical notion that Brexit was done and we should all get on with it.

There have in the last week, as the 10th anniversary approaches, been a slew of headlines about Brexit, which is of course never really out of the news in spite of what the Leavers wanted. And, yes, a lot of people are still talking about it. And it is not “done”.

My column in The Herald on Wednesday focused on the gulf between the scale of the continuing Brexit damage and the maximum that Labour could possibly achieve in its efforts to address this through its “reset” in relations with the European Union, within its lamentable “red lines”. These red lines rule out the UK rejoining the EU, the European single market or even the customs union,

This is clearly a major issue for Labour and you would imagine will figure prominently if the anticipated leadership contest materialises.

The column focused on a report published last Monday by UK in a Changing Europe.

Publishing its report, this think tank said: “As we approach the 10th anniversary of the EU referendum, there is........

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