By damaging the economy in the name of chasing red-wall Brexit voters, the Tories may lose others they take for granted
“Fantastic” and “incredible” are signature words in the prime minister’s surprisingly limited vocabulary. But that exuberant comedic optimism that won him the election is wearing perilously thin.
Real life will eventually crash in on Brexit fantasies, but when? How long can people stay in that alternative universe where dreams of sovereignty blot out what’s all around them? The religious down the centuries often inhabited dream-worlds of phantom heavens: Brexit voters can hibernate inside their own virtual reality – but not for ever.
