He mocked the politicians who’d told voters that “Brexit lies on the side of that bus, click here for your new country”. It’s the first time in a very long time that the Prime Minister has spoken critically about Brexit. The “self-appointed champions of working people”, he said, “lied to this country, unleashed chaos and walked away after Brexit”. And that suggests something profound: that the view of Brexit as a failure is now settled. During the Brexit wars, Remainers would ask themselves when people would realise it was a mistake.