US-UK trade deal: what many brexiters seem to want is the us to affirm not UK ‘sovereignty’, but UK superiority over Ireland and the EU

Ben Margulies discusses the recent reactions of Conservative MPs and Brexit supporters to Joe Biden’s comments against any US-UK trade deal that would jeopardise the Good Friday Agreement. He writes that, while such figures often invoke the issue of UK ‘sovereignty’, what they really seem to want is some sort of godhood.