Brexit crisis won't end for years – and no one is taking responsibility

We hired Cameron to make decisions on our behalf but by passing the buck back to us he has created a dangerous political vacuum

Forget about the humiliating Suez invasion of 1956 or fallout from the 2003 Iraq war. Forget about the IMF crisis of 1976, sterling’s Black Friday in 1992 and Margaret Thatcher’s fight with Irish terrorism, let alone with the miners. I was born at the end of the second world war and this is now the greatest British political crisis of my lifetime.

Why? Because it is self-inflicted, hydra-headed and increasingly beyond our control, both politically and economically, at a time when Britain is losing friends fast by peeing on their chips. It may calm down – it will calm down – but this is a rolling crisis which will not end for years. No one can say with any confidence how it will end.

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