"All the old gang were there: a reunion of the Brexit triumphalists. I was one of the guests in the stately drawing room of Jacob Rees-Mogg's Georgian townhouse in Westminster last week, as the Bruges Group met to cheer the launch of the new book 75 Brexit Benefits: Tangible Benefits from the UK Having Left the European Union. Tory Brexiteers Iain Duncan Smith, Bill Cash and John Redwood were all there,"
"a gathering of the kind of Eurosceptics John Major once called the bastards. Our host, Rees-Mogg, was in jubilant form, celebrating Keir Starmer's recent speeches that named the economic damage done by Brexit. In Labour's new willingness to touch the Brexit live rail, the Bruges Group members welcomed the revival of the grand old conflict as their way back to referendum glory days. Rees-Mogg chortled: Starmer's view that re-entering the European Union is the answer to our economy is as true as everything else he says."
A gathering of Brexit triumphalists, including Jacob Rees-Mogg, Iain Duncan Smith, Bill Cash and John Redwood, celebrated a pro-Brexit book in Westminster. Rees-Mogg mocked Keir Starmer's calls to rejoin the EU and welcomed Labour's willingness to reopen Brexit as an opportunity for Brexiteers. The Leave campaign is described as mendacious, xenophobic and frivolous, driven by fun and personal advancement. The campaign is credited with destroying the Tory party, empowering Nigel Farage, and stirring anti-migrant hate that split families and communities. Many Leave voters continue to suffer real-life effects without the promised benefits, while empty slogans and fearmongering sour political attitudes.
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