Brexit en het staatsrecht: de jaren 2019 en 2020

‘I knew that it would be a long, tortuous and potentially conflictual process. That doesn’t surprise me. What does surprise me is the extent of the mess and the fact that four weeks before the deadline, the political class is unable to come to any serious conclusion about what kind of Brexit they want. Of course, Brexit is a revolutionary moment, but I have never seen a political crisis like this in my professional career.’

Sir Ivan Rogers, ex-ambassadeur van het Verenigd Koninkrijk bij de EU, in een interview met Der Spiegel online.

‘To some extent all politicians are gamblers with events.’

Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor, Londen: Hodder & Stoughton 2014, p. 206