Those who control the present

:: politics, doomed

‘Those who control the present can rewrite the past’ — Anne Fortier


‘The free trade agreement we will have to do should be one of the easiest in human history’ — Liam Fox, 2016

‘The day after we vote to leave we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want’ — Michael Gove, 2016

‘There will continue to be free trade and access to the single market’ — Boris Johnson, 2016

‘Not a single job would be lost because of Brexit’ — Lord Digby Jones, 2016

‘After we vote Leave, we would immediately be able to start negotiating new trade deals with emerging economies and the world’s biggest economies which could enter into force immediately after the UK leaves the EU’ — Leave Campaign, 2016

‘We will maintain a free flowing border at Dover. We will not impose checks at the port. The only reason we would have queues at the border is if we put in place restrictions that created those queues. We are not going to do that’ — Chris Grayling, 2018

‘Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market’ — Daniel Hannan, 2016


How long will it be before these statements were never made?