What Gove fails to mention is that all the experts who warned that Brexit would be an enormous act of economic self-harm have been proven to be correct, and the people like him who predicted unicorns frolicking in the sunlit uplands have been proven to be delusional.

Brexit has eclipsed Suez Crisis

Its impact is deeper, touching almost every aspect of national life.

It has no obvious pathway for reversal or restoration.

It coincides with, and possibly accelerates, Britain’s slide into irrelevance.

After Suez, Britain realised it couldn’t act alone and chose to embed itself more deeply in NATO, the EU, and multilateral institutions.

Brexit Britain chose the opposite path — and finds itself just as constrained, but now with fewer allies and less leverage.