Don’t fixate on a second Brexit vote. Focus instead on trade | Simon Jenkins

Of course it’s possible to change our minds in a democracy. But we have to be realistic about what can and can’t be achieved

They wander Westminster with staring eyes. “Repent,” they cry, “or be doomed. We are all doomed.” They are the second-referendum adventists, the priests of the afterthought, the prophets of the second coming. They meet with decrepit peers in cobwebbed attics. They mix potions and spells, and stick pins in plasticine Theresa Mays. They are mad. As mad as the flat-earth le...