Heroes of Brexit
Today, at 11pm, the UK will formally leave the European Union and regain its status as an independent nation. The struggle to secure British independence has been a generational one, secured in the teeth of political, business, academic and civil society establishment that was institutionally committed to Europe and that sought to deligitimise any who thought differently – from Cameron’s ‘fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists’ to the endless claims of ‘stupid’, ‘bigoted’ and ‘uneducated’ thrown at Leavers since 2016. Yet…