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Brexit drama

May faces cabinet mutiny as Brexit deal breaks down. The latest Brexit drama, explained. The problem isn’t Theresa May — it’s Brexit. Britain has reached a new worst-case scenario on Brexit. Britain could have no Brexit deal and a new prime minister by the time this chaos ends. It is now clear to all who look: Brexit is a humiliation of historic proportions. Will Brexit end not in tragedy but in farce? Fintan O’Toole on how Brexit broke up Britain. Britain’s Brexit solution is staring it in the face. Enter Boris: How the court jester of post-truth politics has positioned himself to become Britain’s next prime minister.

Neal Ascherson reviews What We Have Lost: The Dismantling of Great Britain by James Hamilton-Paterson and The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A 20th-Century History by David Edgerton.