Who won the referendum? It has plenty of losers apart from the EU – David Cameron and Barack Obama, the experts and the financial elites, and that orthodoxy defined by Orwell as “a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question”. Our present orthodoxy, which had included support for the EU, looks fragile.
But it is harder to say who or what has been vindicated. As Ben Ryan wrote earlier in the week, the campaign has divided the country in many directions:
