“We have finally found an agreement,” European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced this Christmas Eve, hailing a “fair” and “balanced” post-Brexit trade deal with the UK. This means that four and half years after the British electorate voted to leave the EU, the first half of this near-impossible task has been completed. The massively wasteful attempt at reversing history that is Brexit is, of course, only temporary – after all, the four-point lead obtained in the referendum by the Leave campaign was made up of older voters who will soon be replaced by a new generation. It was…

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