Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?

‘Admirably brief and necessarily brutal… Whatever your position during the referendum, you ought to read Dunt because he is willing to face uncomfortable facts. The only country in the world with absolute sovereignty is North Korea. Everyone else must make compromises. The only question for us is how bad a compromise we must endure.’

– NICK COHEN, THE SPECTATOR

‘Excellent. A must-read. Harass every MP until they read Dunt’s book.’

– AC GRAYLING, ACADEMIC

‘Dunt’s compact and easily digestible book skilfully navigates the post-referendum world - giving far more detail than any Government minister has yet managed. I’d encourage anyone who is confused, fascinated or frustrated by Brexit to read this book - you’ll be far wiser by the end of it.’

– CAROLINE LUCAS MP

‘I would strongly recommend Ian Dunt’s excellent guide to what happens next. Dunt has taken the extraordinary step of asking a set of experts what they think about matters of law. This is one of the few books of the set to face forwards rather than backwards and it is all the better for that. I learnt a lot, which I find often happens when I have the humility to listen to experts.’

– PHILIP COLLINS, PROSPECT MAGAZINE

‘Dunt is a Remainer, but you wouldn’t be able to tell that from reading this book. He wastes no time on recriminations, finger-pointing or a dissection of the referendum campaign (riven as it was with misinformation, ignorance, propaganda and outright lies). Instead he looks ahead, to the enormous challenges Britain now faces, in the hope of making the best of a bad situation.’

– GRUB STREET

‘It’s a nightmare vision, deliberately painted so, as a shock to the complacency of those who thought Brexit would be a breeze. But, as Dunt then makes clear, these are “the consequences of a chaotic, hard Brexit.’

– PAUL MAGRATH, ICLR

IAN DUNT is a columnist with the i newspaper. He specialises in issues around immigration, civil liberties and social justice and appears as a pundit on BBC TV, Sky News and Al-Jazeera. With Dorian Lynskey, he presents the Origin Story podcast and is a regular contributor to the Oh God, What Now? podcast.

Unlike other titles which look back at the EU referendum campaign, Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now? grapples with the consequences of actually leaving the EU.

Ian’s most recent book, How To Be A Liberal (Canbury, 2020), is an epic history of the spread of the ideas underpinning personal freedom.

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