Cambridge spies and Brexiters have a lot in common

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Bringing in full checks the government had agreed in order "to get Brexit done" would, said Rees-Mogg, have been "an act of self-harm", adding an extra £1bn to the already enormous cost of Brexit.
57% : Why, no less a figure than the minister for Brexit "opportunities", one Jacob Rees-Mogg, finds himself having to delay further implementation of customs bureaucracy because of the damage even he can see in front of him.
57% : In which context it is worth remembering that Daniel, now Lord, Hannan - one of the most influential people behind Brexit - said in 2015 that "absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market".
53% : Brexit has been accompanied by "an erosion of trust in UK governments to run disciplined economic policies".
51% : Like the Democratic Unionist party, he was complaining about the Northern Ireland protocol, the arrangement negotiated by Boris Johnson under which border controls were introduced between England and Northern Ireland, because the latter remains, with the republic of Ireland, in the single market, and Great Britain, owing to Brexit, does not.
47% : As Simon Kuper points out in his excellent book, both groups betrayed us to Moscow - but the former did it deliberatelyThe chaos caused by Brexit is here for all but the most pigheaded Brexiters to see.
43% : Putin most certainly wanted Brexit and the breakup of the European Union.
38% : The Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper gives a superb account of the malign forces that culminated in Brexit in his book Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK.

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