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Boris Johnson’s Plan to Kill ‘Brexit’
The word “Brexit” is so loaded with emotion now that Johnson’s only hope of moving past conflict is changing the language. It won’t be easy.
Get Brexit gone.
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Shortly after his election victory in December, it was reported that Boris Johnson wanted the word “Brexit” retired. Not just retired, but expunged as a matter of urgency once the U.K. has left the European Union on Jan. 31.
This would be like Donald Trump telling White House staff that they need to drop the “Make America Great Again” thing. Without Brexit — and his “Get Brexit Done” campaign — we’d mainly know Boris Johnson as just another former mayor, a talented politician who wrote amusing newspaper columns.