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Editorial: Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal makes the best of what’s still a terrible idea
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confounded his critics by reaching a last-minute agreement with the European Union on the terms of the United Kingdom’s departure from the EU.
The agreement mostly tracks an earlier Brexit deal negotiated with the EU by former Prime Minister Theresa May, with new language on the contentious issue of how Brexit will affect relations between…
- By The Times Editorial Board
- Los Angeles Times
But even if this latest version of Brexit clears the remaining political hurdles — and that’s far from assured — any celebration must be muted.
The best that can be said of the agreement is that it will contain the damage from a…
We refer to the June 2016 referendum in which almost 52% of…