Brexit ruined our social lives. Can we now kiss and make up?

Remainers’ anger has subsided, but this is an uneasy peace

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LONDON, ENGLAND – JANUARY 08: Anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray (L) and a pro-Brexit protester argue as they demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster on January 08, 2019 in London, England. MPs in Parliament are to vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal next week after last month’s vote was called off in the face of a major defeat. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

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Brexit spoilt our social lives for three and a half years. I was in Austria in a house party of 20 Britons when the result came through. Sixteen of us had voted Remain (three while ‘holding their noses’) and four had voted Leave. The Leave voters stayed silent while the rest of us raged about the stupidity of the voting public. One of the party got busy canceling a long-planned canal-boat trip with a lifelong friend who she knew had voted Leave. She suddenly couldn’t face sleeping in close proximity to him.

In London, protest marches…

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