Sunak must detoxify Brexit to save himself

Major factor: People walk outside the Bank of England in London. The bond markets are now part of every government decision impacting the economy, thanks to the fallout from the Sept 23 mini-budget under Liz Truss’ government. — AP

DURING his Sunday morning broadcast rounds, Michael Gove, the arch-Brexiteer and now UK cabinet secretary in charge of levelling up, repeated a claim he’d made countless times before: Brexit, he said, had been “a significant success for this country.”

Even a veteran spinner like Gove struggled to sustain the assertion. “What planet has this lunatic been living on?” asked Australian vlogger Peter Stefanovic in a viral video detailing all the ways Brexit has exacerbated economic weaknesses.