How Brexit prepared us for COVID-19: From boiling frog to butterfly

When David Cameron resigned on June 24th, 2016 after the British Public had decided to turn their back on the EU, we (like him) misjudged the situation, the reality and the context of a changing world under pressure. We were those boiling frogs who didn’t quite realise the urgency and potential for change – it was time to jump out of the pot and do something quite different and quickly. Four years on we have learned our lesson well, so when Covid-19 came along, it was a very different story.