Western Daily Press

Brexit support is draining away

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SUPPORT for Brexit is rapidly draining away as the British people are increasing­ly disillusio­ned with the whole Brexit process.

Even Boris Johnson’s own brother has called for a second referendum. Dominic Raab’s remarkable ignorance of the importance of the Dover-Calais export route is not surprising from an extreme Brexiteer.

But the ignorance is even more profound than that. They seem to lack even a school child’s knowledge of British history. The so-called Irish Question, Home Rule for Ireland, bedevilled British politics for decades in the 19th and early 20th century.

The Tories have failed to learn from history; now they are condemned to repeat it! The Irish issue was intractabl­e then, and it is intractabl­e now.

The Prime Minister has an

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The upper ticket officeof the cliff railway at Babbacombe in Devon, by Stephen Jones, ofWesthide, Hereford

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