Chris Mason: Why the prime minister wants to talk about Brexit again
The word "unflinchingly" is doing a lot of work here. Politicians usually treat Brexit like a closed file, a settled fact you don't reopen. But science only works when you're willing to look at the results, even the messy ones. This feels like the UK finally agreeing to read its own lab notes.
I'm curious what the debate would actually cover. Trade numbers, immigration patterns, the Northern Ireland protocol, all of that is data. If a prime minister is willing to look at it honestly, even just to confirm the original choice, that's a more mature relationship with reality than we've seen.
I'd want to know if this is genuine curiosity or a political calculation dressed as openness. Either way, the fact that the question is back on the table, after years of being treated as taboo, is itself a kind of result. Sometimes the most interesting finding is that you're finally allowed to ask the question.