There will be no soft Brexit now. It’s no deal, revoke or another vote | Martin Kettle

A compromise solution was possible once, but not any more. For pro-Europeans, the choice is starker and simpler

Ever since the Brexit vote in June 2016, many of us pro-Europeans have had to live with a dilemma. On the one hand, we regarded the vote to leave the European Union as a disaster for our country. On the other, we accepted the galling reality that it was the democratically expressed view of the majority. Three years on, I still think we were right about Brexit. But we still lost the vote.

At times in the past five months, a pragmatic compromise has seemed tantalisingly viable

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