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How Britain could change its mind about Brexit

The sense that Brexit is inevitable must go. Public opinion needs to tilt away from it. Politicians need to speak up. After all, democracies are allowed to change their minds.

Published Wed, Jan 17, 2018 · 09:50 PM

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    WILL 2018 be the year when the United Kingdom changes its mind about leaving the European Union? Conventional wisdom says that stopping Brexit is impossible. But what did conventional wisdom say about Donald Trump? Or Emmanuel Macron? Or, for that matter, the original Brexit referendum?

    In revolutionary times, events can go from impossible to inevitable without ever passing through improbable. Brexit was such an event, and its reversal could be another.

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