Boris Johnson famously rode on the back of the 'Get Brexit Done' mantra into Downing Street to become Prime Minister in December, 2019. As the architect of leaving the European Union is soon to exit No 10, does it mean Brexit will be undone?
There have been noises by pro-EU politicians expressing delight at Johnson's fall and voicing hopes it could reopen the conversation about the UK's relationship with Europe.
However, the appetite within the major parties in England does not appear to be there for a campaign for a new EU referendum. Firstly, it's impossible to imagine Johnson being replaced by anyone who has expressed the slightest desire to re-join the EU.
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Such is the hold on the Tory party by the hugely influential anti-EU European Research Group of MPs like Jacob Rees-Mogg, Steve Baker and Andrew Bridgen, it would be very unlikely to gather support.
As for Labour, current leader Sir Keir Starmer has done much to distance himself from the pro EU policy he was the architect of in the party's 2019 general election campaign under Jeremy Corbyn.
Starmer was the then Shadow Brexit Secretary and advocated a second Brexit referendum, a policy that saw many so-called Red Wall seats in Labour heartlands fall to Boris Johnson's Tory party.
Even as independent and non partisan reports have been published about the damage Brexit was doing to the UK economy, he has remained stubbornly quiet on the subject. He did break his silence this week on the issue, only to rule out a return to the EU and a desire to make Brexit work.
As for the Lib Dems, under leader Sir Ed Davey the party is more cautiously pro-EU than Labour. But even then, they are not calling for a second referendum, perhaps scarred by the scale of the defeat inflicted on Davey's predecessor, Jo Swinson, in 2019 who had vowed to stop Brexit, as well as Labour.
At the party's conference in 2021, it resolved to support a longer-term objective of UK membership of the the EU, but rejected a proposal for an immediate campaign to reverse Brexit which, it said, was more likely to alienate voters sick of the recent history of Brexit-inspired division and bitterness.
So, in short, Brexit won't be undone as there is no political in all the major parties in England to overturn it.
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