Richard Baker via In Pictures via Getty ImagesA former Conservative prime minister has branded Brexit “an act of collective folly” in a bitter attack on the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. “It left our country poorer, weaker and divorced from the richest free trade market that history has ever seen,” Major said. He said: “The nation saw Project Fear become Project Reality very easily. It’s no consolation that the majority of the public now overwhelmingly recognises that it was misled in their moments of triumph. “Brexiteers predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the European Union.
