In a Bid to ‘Take Back Control,’ Britain Lost It
Brexit was supposed to be about the U.K. taking charge of its future. That didn’t happen.
The central idea behind the Brexit referendum was for Britain to “take back control”—over its laws, its money, its immigration system. For those who campaigned in favor of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, Brexit would mark the beginning of a new, more global Britain. By leaving the EU, they argued, they would be returning power from Brussels back to lawmakers in Westminster and, by extension, to the British people themselves.
But if the past two years have demonstrated anything, it’s that Britain hasn’t
