The Irish Times, a daily broadsheet newspaper, has run an online article entitled 'Irish Times view on Brexit: a year on, and all for what?' This quickly savages Brexit and those who continue to support it, including claiming promises the UK would sign up to lucrative trade deals around the world "have not materialised". The article from the newspaper says: "So far a balance sheet of gains and losses can only point at the direction of travel for the UK or the EU, but it is indicative of a rough road that holds little prospect of the promised glory days for a newly ‘independent’ Britain.

       "Even disentangling the economic damage caused by this historic folly from that caused by the pandemic remains problematic, a thin political cover still used by unrepentant Brexiteers."

       It continues: "The unfinished business of implementing the agreed protocol has also poisoned the divorce.

       "This has left a soured relationship between the UK and both Ireland and the EU with the threat of a trade war still looming. Britain is diminished not enhanced on the world stage.

       "Internally, Brexit has contributed to destabilisation in Northern Ireland, while in Scotland it has fuelled the cause of independence. A year on, and all for what?"

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