Gosling's Grouse: Hot air and egos over Brexit

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You could call Brexit Bori-xit - as in Boris-exit or, as I am beginning to describe it, Borexit, even though we have another four months to go.

It could become an interesting pub or party game - to add the names of various politicians or football managers, to the 'exit debate'. Louis van Gaal would surely be 'Vanexit' or Theresa May as 'Mayexit'. For me, the Brexit debate itself is rapidly becoming about two issues only. Firstly, it is about where senior members of the Conservative party stand on the issue and what they think they need to say, and do, to stand a chance of becoming party leader and, by default, the next leader of the country. Straight away a group of them are doing what they do best - thinking about power firs...

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