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Andrew Neil’s attack on Horrible Histories shows many aren’t ready to laugh about Brexit just yet

Those worried about a facing a fearful future should apparently just get with the programme now we have officially left the EU, writes Matthew Norman

Sunday 02 February 2020 19:17 GMT
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The war of Brexit has been won and lost. However gruesome recent years have been, the really hard bit is the peace
The war of Brexit has been won and lost. However gruesome recent years have been, the really hard bit is the peace (Getty)

So then, how’s that bringing-the-country-back-together trope working out for you?

Day three in our reclaimed sovereignty wonderland is obviously the earliest of doors. I say it’s obvious, though for the likes of Douglas Carswell it appears otherwise.

Carswell was one of various Brexity sages to wait hours after withdrawal before crowing that the dire warnings about post-Brexit life had already been ridiculed.

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