Will business bin Brexit? Or is it Brexit forever?

People need jobs, certainty and a settlement which allows them to prosper. But despite more than two years spent negotiating with the EU, a deal seems further away than ever

The basic Brexiteer success narrative before June 2016’s historic vote went something like this: we, Britain, are big. We, Britain, buy lots and lots of German cars. The European Union is really run by the Germans. Post-1950, the Germans have succeeded economically where they failed militarily. They are the de facto rulers of Europe.

It is the Germans who make last minute deals in the dead of night to suit themselves, as they did ...