Before he resigned as Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson wrote an article in which he all but admitted the cause of a hard Tory Brexit was lost.
He and the likes of Michael Gove, Nigel Farage, Liam Fox, David Davis and the Daily Mail’s Paul Dacre sold the British people a false bill of goods in 2016. The truth, confirmed by myriad, independent post-referendum studies, is that leaving the EU, on whatever terms, will harm the livelihoods, living standards and job prospects of most British citizens, especially the young.
The truth is that Brexit will damage the cohesion, mutual tolerance and integrity of British society in numerous, avoidable ways. The dawning, sobering truth, as we have always argued, is that Brexit – soft, hard or medium-rare – is a disaster in the making that will render Britain a weaker, lonelier, poorer and uglier place.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/10/the-observer-view-on-mps-having-chance-to-vote-in-interests-of-people-on-brexit