Quote Originally Posted by World's End Stella View Post
Nope.

There was never any chance of hard Brexit really because the people that will be responsible for negotiating it know how badly things could go economically in the short term and, regardless of how many people voted for Brexit, that they would then be held accountable.

All of which sort of points back to the folly that was the referendum in the first place.
It was reported here that the topic that took up most time on day 1 of your formal negotiations was indeed Ireland and the thorny issue of borders etc.