Sun readers made the right call on Brexit — our best days definitely lie ahead

UK’s rebirthday

FIVE years ago today Britain, and a majority of Sun readers, made a momentous decision. Already, just 17 months after we finally left the EU, we have been vindicated.

Leavers were warned of a tsunami of job losses, of business flight, a wrecked economy and a collapse in house prices if we dared break free.

Project Fear was bad enough. Then came the Remainer trolls. They branded Leave voters thick, old, white racists. If we left, the world would loathe Britain.

Every word was false. Some 17.4million people knew it and on June 23, 2016, voted — in that memorable phrase — to take back control. And so we have, with huge ­success even in these early months:

An EU trade deal Remainers branded “impossible”. Scores of EU-era deals replicated or improved. A brand new one with Australia. Now talks have begun on joining the CPTPP, a massive international trading partnership.

We went our own way on Covid jabs, developing, approving and rolling them out far faster than Brussels. The EU response? Panic, spite and vengeful bullying, exposing ­fatal flaws in its values and judgment as well as its structure.

Brexit has had other positives. We control our immigration and can turn away foreign criminals. We axed the hated tampon tax, impossible in the EU.

Not everything has gone right. Fishing arrangements are far from ideal. The Northern Ireland protocol is being undermined by Brussels’ petty need to salvage a “win”.

But most Brits now want Brexit to succeed and Boris Johnson to ensure it.