Get ready for the next round of Brexit poker

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : UK chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley applauds the government's critique of UK businesses' "mainlining" of cheap labour but says the combined effect of the pandemic and Brexit has turned an anti-addiction programme into a brutal cold turkey.
58% : With Brexit behind us, this was Year Zero for Global Britain.
57% : Having spent last week observing the Labour party still shying away from Brexit at its annual conference in Brighton, the Brexit Briefing went to Manchester for the Conservative equivalent, where for rather different reasons, Brexit was also strangely absent.
53% : Or more accurately, Brexit was everywhere and yet nowhere.
52% : EU diplomats did their best to observe the courtesies of their profession -- although the EU ambassador João Vale de Almeida couldn't resist noting how Tories from Churchill to Thatcher and Arthur Cockfield to Leon Brittan had helped to build the EU -- but they will have cabled their capitals to say that while "Brexit is done", the British boil has not been lanced.
51% : Or that, at least, seems to be the opinion of the public, according to a rolling YouGov poll this month that found only 18 per cent of the public felt Brexit was "going well", but more than half (53 per cent) felt it was "going badly" -- that's up 15 points from June.
50% : For all the ministerial bravado and the attempts to blame business for supply chain disruptions in Manchester, it is difficult to argue that Brexit is going well.
49% : It remains to be seen whether a tough winter brings the greatest showman of British politics back down to earth, but those numbers suggest that the public is not oblivious to the frictional impacts of Brexit.
46% : Listing partners in this global network of free trade and security co-operation, Truss included South Korea and the Gulf states; Narendra Modi's India and the commonwealth, but no mention of the network of 27 countries that make up the UK's geographical neighbourhood.
40% : "If we can agree something better, we can get back to where we wanted to be -- an independent Britain with friendly relations with the EU based on free trade."
26% : Lord David Frost, the Brexit minister, went further in his speech, describing the UK's almost 50 years of membership of the European Union as a nightmare.

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