Now, though, his hyperactive first week in power, his bracing view of geopolitics and the time he recently spent with May have surely put a fresh set of tensions into the debate about how we leave the EU – or, indeed, whether we should leave at all – and the international relationships that might take its place.
Is there no argument, no scurrilous excuse these people will not stoop to deny the democratic will of the majority who voted on the 23rd June 2016?
Well, obviously, not. Never in all my time have I come across so much whining about losing or such a concerted effort to undermine and reverse a democratic mandate.
You lost. Get over it. We are leaving.