The Guardian view on silence about Brexit: time to talk turkey | Editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : All are, in part, the consequence of the sloppy handling of Brexit.
63% : Labour and the Conservatives have both been happy to stay quiet about Brexit during the pandemic.
62% : When he mentions Brexit at all, it is to taunt Labour with being bad losers.
58% : He acts, probably with focus-group backing, as if Conservative voters continue to see Brexit as a great emotional issue of reclaimed sovereignty, not a set of still-evolving practical relationships for which government must take responsibility.
57% : Many aspects of Brexit are neither done nor dusted.
49% : The Labour party, meanwhile, licked its wounds, tacitly accepted that Brexit was indeed settled, and decided not to mention the subject if it could be avoided.
48% : Boris Johnson won the election on the soundbite promise to "get Brexit done", and then behaved as though all aspects of the UK's departure from Europe were now fully sorted.
47% : And he came up with a phrase of his own - the need for a plan to "make Brexit work".
40% : Since the 2019 general election, there has been a mutually convenient conspiracy of silence between Britain's two main parties about Brexit.

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