The government doesn’t want to talk about it. Ministers are instead preparing hardline legislation designed to prop up Boris Johnson. It will override the Northern Ireland protocol and prove to some Tory MPs that Britain is a perpetual rule-breaker still at war with the European Union.
Labour certainly doesn’t want to talk about it. Sir Keir Starmer is desperate to avoid anything that suggests, especially to voters in the red wall, that he is cosying up to Brussels.
In time, though, we will need to talk about Brexit. In particular, we will have to address its problems, and how to fix them. For our own economic good, and to foster better relations with our nearest neighbours, the emphasis must shift from hostility and denial to