Five things we should focus on now we have left the EU

Getting to Brexit Day was the easy part – now the real work begins, writes John Rentoul

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Everyone knows that Boris Johnson hasn’t really “got Brexit done”, but we are no longer a member of the EU, and that means that the intense media focus of the past three and a half years will now be directed at other things. What might we worry about instead?

1. Leaving the EU single market

Maintaining public interest in the EU trade negotiations is going to be hard, but they are the important bit of our separation from the single market. As Michael Gove honestly accepted on Friday, frictionless trade will not be possible under the Brexit model he and Boris Johnson favour, which has to allow for divergence in future.