The 2016 Campaign That Never Ended—In Britain

LONDON—It’s been called the “perpetual election”—in the United States, the events of 2016, with all the acrimony and partisanship and theatrics that attended them, just seem to keep going. Democrats are still relitigating that year’s presidential primary; Russian hacking is still being investigated; Trump is still holding campaign-style rallies.

But across the Atlantic, Britain also seems stuck in the campaign that led to its own seismic vote in 2016. More than two years have passed since Britons voted to leave the European Union, but the politicking won’t let up, and neither will the campaigners. This time, they aren’t talking about whetherthe U.K. will leave the EU, but about what could happen if they do it in a certain way—not the U.K. will remain or leave, but they should exit, will be affected, and the deal needs to get done.