Opinion | Comedy of errors: meet the cast of Britain’s Brexit tragedy
- As confusion and chaos grips Britain over its future with the EU, here’s a look back at some of Brexit’s instigators and where they are now
Observers of the deepening political crisis in Britain over Brexit may well be reminded of a Shakespearean tragedy.
It has a storyline full of blind ambition and treachery that threatens to blow apart the United Kingdom, reignite the troubles in Northern Ireland and send Scotland racing off to independence.
Or is it, they may ask, a cautionary tale like Matilda by the Anglo-French writer Hillaire Belloc about a girl who told so many lies she was burnt to death?
Then again, in the age of social media and political narcissism, many of the characters could have stepped straight out of a James Bond novel, only 007 has yet to show up.
Or is Brexit simply the consequence of the sometimes malign incompetence of the British ruling class from the colonial era of yesteryear, with a couple of chancer “wide boys” thrown in?
Here are some of the characters:
