A long time coming: Brexit and what happens next

Britain has always been relatively Eurosceptic and might have voted to leave at any point in the last decade. Post-2004, immigration and the Eurozone crisis were the icing on the cake. James Dennison argues that Brexit is unlikely to result in national catastrophe and we were never wholeheartedly committed to the European project anyway – and certainly not what it had become. He concludes that Britons now must accept the result and coalesce around a settlement that minimises disruption over the next decade and will demand considerable concessions from both sides.