TS Eliot had words of hope for Leavers and Remainers alike | Kenan Malik

Ursula von den Leyen’s quote from Little Gidding is a perfect epitaph for the Brexit year

What we call the beginning is often the end/ And to make an end is to make a beginning.”

European commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s words on completion of Brexit negotiations were taken from TS Eliot’s Little Gidding, the final part of his Four Quartets, and his last great poem.