Brexit Secretary hadn't realised how important Dover-Calais is for trade with the EU

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3. This is positively Trumpish:

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Raab: "... I think probably the average consumer might not be aware of the full extent to which the choice of goods that we have in the stores are dependent on one or two very specific trade routes."

Trump: "Most people don’t even know Lincoln was a Republican ..." "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated ..." yadayadayada.

Along with the importance of Dover-Calais, the potential flashpoint of the Good Friday Agreement, the difficulties of trading under WTO terms, the desperate need for freedom of movement to get our crops picked and our NHS staffed and any number of other issues that make a no deal a non-starter were well known before the vote, let alone before Article 50 was so rashly triggered.

But they were all dismissed as "Project Fear", and everything was going to be oh so easy, wasn't it?