Australia first

AFTER THE PEOPLE HAD SPOKEN, much of the opposition to Brexit was process-based. This opposition could take legal form — thus the Supreme Court deciding it knew when Parliament was prorogued or not. But mostly it was rhetorical and moral: the wrong thing was being done the wrong way. These influential voices, in politics and the press, have been curiously quiet about the UK’s commitment to a new, anti-Chinese, military relationship with Australia and the United States.

This silence has been all the more