With six months and counting before the UK-EU divorce becomes official, Britons understandably are frustrated by the absence of post-Brexit clarity. Genuine concern, lingering misgivings about the referendum, and a series of government missteps have invited justified criticism, but also heaps of hyperbole and fear-mongering from politicians and opinion leaders across the ideological spectrum.

Obscured by grandstanding is the fact that a Brexit agreement that preserves structural integration where it is mutually beneficial and restores Westminster’s autonomy to negotiate free trade deals is both desirable and attainable.

Extricating the UK from the single market and customs union will restore national sovereignty, improve fiscal accountability, and ensure flexibility to decide laws and regulations properly suited to British concerns. But, of course, ceding the privileges of EU