Calling Cameron ‘man baby’ for resigning over Brexit

We hardly need reminding that Brexit is barely living up to the ideal of the buccaneering “global Britain” we were promised. Right now, it’s more like a clown show.

- Sean O’Grady, The Independent

Leaving the European Union was the malign gift that keeps on giving. It has caused the social and economic damage we see around us, cramping living standards, public services, and even the defence of the realm for want of the prosperity we once took for granted. It has had a baleful effect on investment and growth, and left Britain a meaner, poorer, grubbier place. Indeed, it may well be said that Brexit broke Britain, and created a new wave of grievances for Nigel Farage to exploit. It’s his Ponzi scheme. So won't someone spare a thought for those who got us into this mess? Those like Michael Gove, and his now-former wife Sarah Vine, who has written a memoir of her life as a Westminster Wag. Always a fluent writer, trenchant and not especially likeable, Vine makes it clear in the extracts published thus far that not only did Brexit break Britain, it also broke her and Gove’s somewhat one-sided and demi-mercenary “friendship” with David and Samantha Cameron. It doesn't seem to have done much good to the Goves’ own relationship, either (albeit as only one of the many strains in