The Brexit Dilemma

Boris Johnson's road to Brexit speech titled "A United Kingdom" called for campaigners on both sides to unite and make the best of it. Mr. Johnson insists that leaving the EU will be a good thing for Britain, whilst at the same time acknowledging that there is considerable ambivalence surrounding Brexit. Mr. Johnson stated that Brexit will enable Britain to re-connect with its global identity from which will flow energy that presumably Mr. Johns envisages will deliver global trade thereby removing the need to strike embarrassingly servile deals with the EU. In contrast Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator, feels that "the UK will face unavoidable barriers to trade (presumably with Europe) if it leaves the customs union and single market"