Britain has cut itself adrift from Europe. I fear we may sink | Martin Kettle

The next phase of Brexit talks will define our future, but we have yet to grasp their scale and complexity

In his novel The Stone Raft, the Portuguese writer José Saramago imagines that the Iberian peninsula breaks away physically from the rest of the European continent at the Pyrenees. The peninsula and its peoples detach from Europe and drift across the oceans, seemingly in search of a new home and contentment, which – spoiler alert – they never quite find.

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