It will not be until ‘true Brexit’ comes into being, at the earliest in January 2021, that we will be able to start to tally up the economic benefits to the United Kingdom of leaving the European Union. But we can already start to assess the political significance of its new status as a third country.
Up until 31 January, almost one in ten of the members of the European Parliament had been elected to their seats in the United Kingdom; along with Italy, the country was in third place by...