My initial reaction on reading comments made by David Miliband claiming Brexit had made the UK a lower-status nation was to dismiss it as another self-justifying piece by someone who saw Brexit as calamitous and who fervently called for a second referendum in an effort to reverse the vote to leave. A friendless Britain on the path to rack and ruin following Brexit was, after all, what he and other EU devotees forecast would happen. His argument is replete with jargon and contradictions. Lots of words but little said. Don’t get me wrong, David Miliband was my boss for a year or so when he was f…
