What would have happened had Remain won the 2016 referendum? @RSylvesterTimes explores this question. My view is that a narrow Remain win would’ve been taken by much of the Conservative Party as a mandate for a looser relationship within the EU.../1 https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/the-transition-period-has-ended-but-what-happened-in-the-branch-of-history-where-the-uk-never-left
The transition has ended. But what's happening in the parallel universe where we never left the EU?...

Everything and nothing would be different

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/the-transition-period-has-ended-but-what-happened-in-the-branch-of-history-where-the-uk-never-left
...which David Cameron wouldn’t have been able to deliver. Within a few months, he’d have been forced out. The Conservative Party would’ve gone for the leading Eurosceptic candidate promising that looser relationship. So Boris Johnson would’ve become PM in 2017. /2
He too wouldn’t have been able to renegotiate a looser relationship within the EU. My guess is that in response he’d have gone to the country and won a General Election promising another In/Out referendum. /3
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