No 10 daren't admit it, but Ursula von der Leyen is right: we'll be going back on Brexit

There was little doubt who came ahead in the spat between Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, and Rishi Sunak last week over Britain rejoining the EU. She began her salvo acknowledging that the EU had "goofed up" in losing Britain, but that it would fall to her children's generation "to fix it". The "direction of travel was clear". Britain one day would rejoin. The substance behind No 10's inevitable refutation was so threadbare that it bordered on the comic. But then there is no better defence to hand. The prime minister, intoned his spokesman, did…