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Exclusive from @oliver_wright Britain needs to start talking about reversing Brexit, the civil servant who led Britain’s preparations for leaving the European Union has said In a highly unusual intervention, Philip Rycroft, former permanent secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union, said life outside the EU had failed to live up to the expectations and there now needed to be a “clear-headed appraisal of what is in the country’s best interests” He warned that rejoining the European Union would be a “long and windy” road but added the “argument is there to be won” Rycroft’s comments, in an article for The Times, are significant, not simply because of his former role in government but also because they reflect a wider view held in private by many in Whitehall and among MPs that Labour ministers will eventually need to pivot to make the case for rejoining Rycroft said it was “not hard to see” why the public was “falling out of love with Brexit”, arguing that none of the “heady promises” of the Leave campaigns had not materialised “Most economic analysis suggests that we have taken a significant hit to GDP as a result of leaving the single market,” he said. “The precise number, and the impact on our export performance to the EU and beyond, might be subject to debate, but no one can credibly claim that we have marched to the sunny uplands of sustained economic growth as a consequence of Brexit.” thetimes.com/article/a01c5b…