If 2019 was the Brexit election, in 2024 the issue will barely be mentioned at all. For the Conservatives it has become an unmitigated political disaster. Having lost younger, liberal, Remain voters, they are haemorrhaging disappointed Leave voters, who have seen no material improvement in their lives. Labour, having already banked most of those Remain voters, are keen to avoid putting off the defecting Leavers, so are staying shtum. Everyone will be doing their best not to mention Brexit.
Except for Tim Shipman, the chief political commentator at The Sunday Times, who has produced a 700-page epic on the miserable two years from the 2017 election to Boris Johnson taking over as prime minister. It follows his previous two volumes on the referendum and the
