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Why has Brexit disappeared from the front pages of UK newspapers?

Analysis​:​ After the government was granted its Article 50 extension, the question of EU withdrawal seems to have slipped down the news agenda

Will Gore
Sunday 28 April 2019 17:05 BST
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Politics remains dominated by Britain’s departure from the bloc, even if it is indirectly
Politics remains dominated by Britain’s departure from the bloc, even if it is indirectly

Amazingly, this weekend’s newspaper front pages have been – almost – a Brexit-free zone.

The only stories to deserve the “splash” slot appeared in Saturday’s Financial Times, which reported that Warren Buffett was preparing to invest in Britain despite Brexit; and in Saturday’s Independent, which covered the Labour row about an election leaflet which failed to make mention of a second referendum on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.

So, does this mean that Brexit fatigue is setting in? Certainly the prime minister has sought to argue that the British people are “tired” of Brexit – or at least, as she put it in her address to the nation last month: “You are tired of the infighting, tired of the political games and the arcane procedural rows, tired of MPs talking about nothing else but Brexit when you have real concerns about our children’s schools, our National Health Service, knife crime.”

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