As I’ve been saying for months - a Biden election win changes everything about Brexit

Not because it changes the actual detail of any potential US-UK trade deal - but because it changes the entire psychological & cultural context within Brexit operates & is perceived.
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Brexit in the age of Buden is. at best, a dull & disappointing problem to mitigate.

Brexit in the age of Trump was a passenger swept along on the populist wave.

The Brexit of 2016-2020 is thus now dead.
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Johnson for all his faults knows which way the wind blows. He’s got a few weeks to either sort out a softer Brexit than Cummings would ever have accepted or find a (no doubt costly) way to soften the mess hitting us in 2021.

The “Leave lads” are not suited to either task.
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