A decade after the referendum, EU leaders would welcome closer ties – once the UK has understood the ‘European deal’ • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Brexit’s back. Well, sort of. If it ever really went away. At any rate, an awful lot of ink has been spilled – in Britain, at least – over last weekend’s remarks by a would-be PM that Brexit was “a catastrophic mistake” and the UK’s future lay “back in the EU”. That reflects, first, just how deep the wounds of Brexit