Getting a better Brexit deal means making Britain European again | Rafael Behr

A perverse consensus is emerging in British politics that simultaneously accepts and denies that Brexit has failed. The prime minister and the leader of the opposition are both shopping for European policy in the narrow aisle between economic grasp of the problem and political fear of the remedy.

No one likes the status quo. Enthusiasts for Boris Johnson’s deal

that its terms have been diluted and its spirit betrayed. Betrayal was…