Thank God. Never again will those impossible people on the other side of the Channel be able to interfere in our affairs. Now we can take back control and sit back and watch their union fall apart. Those, of course, were the sentiments of European leaders on Wednesday as they opened the envelope containing Theresa May’s notification of Britain’s intention to withdraw from the European Union.
Publicly, Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, expressed his regret. Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, called Brexit a “tragedy”. Privately, however, I suspect they both punched the air when the letter from London arrived, just as Boris Johnson did when he inadvertently won last June’s referendum.
Until now nearly all the debate on Brexit