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Hugo Rifkind

The best thing about Brexit? It’s not my fault

20 August 2016

9:00 AM

20 August 2016

9:00 AM

Brexit Britain fills me with calm. Six weeks on, there’s no point pretending otherwise. Losing is far better than winning. I am filled with enormous serenity at the thought of this terrible, terrible idea being not my fault at all.

I didn’t expect to feel this way. Although there were signs, now I think back, on the night of the vote.

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