Between May 2 and May 9 2025, the UK's Remainers and Rejoiners were handed five "terrible" set-backs.
In just seven days, events came to pass both inside and outside Brexit Britain which some may see as a total vindication of leaving the clutches of Brussels - spearheaded, of course, by Nigel Farage.
Now, GB News has looked into all five Rejoiner setbacks, as highlighted by author Gully Foyle on X, and how Brexit played a role in how they came to pass.
May 2 - Reform UK's local election surge
Sarah Pochin stole headlines on the morning of May 2 as Reform surged in the locals
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As polls closed on Thursday, May 1, Nigel Farage counselled calm. "Thank you for voting Reform," he said. "We have fought a strong campaign. The two major parties are more fearful of the results tonight than we are."
A few hours later, dawn had broken across England. His party was surging as council results flooded in, had won two mayoral contests, and had returned a new MP, Sarah Pochin, to the Commons.
By the end of May 2, Reform had gained nearly 700 councillors - and now controlled 10 councils.
In wards where over 65 per cent of voters elected to leave the EU in 2016, Reform won as much as 45 per cent of the vote on average.
And as polling guru Sir John Curtice highlighted, Brexit - still a major fault line in UK politics - was invoked by its principal cheerleader Farage to electoral triumph.
Reform's own policy platform, "Our Contract With You", starts with the words: "Britain has so much potential. Our country is full of talent and energy. Brexit is the opportunity of a lifetime."
The result? A 31 per cent vote share across the locals - a standalone first-placed finish, and a vote of confidence from Brexit-backing Britons.
May 2 - Sand eel ban VICTORY
Sand eels are crucial to the survival of British puffins
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On the same day as Reform's locals breakthrough, a challenge to Britain's ban on EU fishing for sand eels in the North Sea was dismissed by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
The UK had slapped bans on continental trawlers in English and Scottish waters in early 2024 to prohibit them netting the tiny fish - crucial to Britain's marine life including seabirds like puffins.
EU bigwigs had claimed the move was "discriminatory and disproportionate", breached a post-Brexit trade deal, and could threaten the future of commercial sandeel fishing in Denmark.
But it was thrown out in The Hague.
The "great sand eel massacre, planned by the Danes and the Dutch", as one Reform insider called it, had finally come to an end.
May 6 - Global trade breakthrough
On May 6, Britain and India signed off on a landmark deal
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On May 6, Britain and India signed off on a landmark trade deal - which will add an estimated £4.8billion a year to the UK economy by 2040.
Concerns remain over the National Insurance exemption for Indian workers in the UK - led by Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick - but scores of high-profile Brexit-backing Tories have come out to bat for the Labour-sealed deal.
Ex-Deputy PM Oliver Dowden said it "builds on significant progress made by [the] previous Conservative Government".
Former Business Secretary Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said it would bring "cheaper food and drink including rice and tea, footwear and clothing".
"Exactly what Brexit promised," he added.
And former Brexit Minister Steve Baker said: "This deal is great news. It further cements the path which I and others worked so hard to secure.
"The tax issue will likely turn out to be a red herring. We should be celebrating that a Labour Government has furthered free trade in the national interest outside the EU."
May 6 - Rejoiners slapped down by LABOUR as referendum petition goes nowhere
On the same day, a petition to have Britain U-turn on the will of the people in 2016 and rejoin the EU came to a quiet close.
"I want the Government to hold a referendum on whether the UK should rejoin the European Union," the petition - which opened on April 22 - said.
Two weeks after it was launched, the drive to rejoin had garnered only 16,594 signatures - more than 80,000 below the threshold required to prompt a parliamentary debate.
And in a crushing blow for Brexit-hating voters, it received a dismissive response from Labour - though one which teased its "relations reset" with Brussels.
"The Government was elected on a manifesto that made clear the UK would not rejoin the EU.
"We are focused on a strategic alliance with the EU to make the UK safer, more secure and more prosperous."
May 9 - Donald Trump FINALLY puts Britain at the front of the queue
Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump held a press conference from two ends of a phone line
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On Friday, May 9, Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump held a press conference from two ends of a phone line - one in the West Midlands, and the other in Washington.
The two leaders announced a breakthrough had been reached on a crucial UK-US tariff reduction deal. Britain, expressly thanks to Brexit, as Trump said, deserved a levy let-off before any other country.
"The European Union treated us extremely unfairly... and hurt themselves in doing so," Trump blasted.
"They very much want to make a deal. We’ll be dealing with them. We are dealing with them currently," he said.
In the aftermath, Remainers scrambled to claim that Britain's independence was of no relevance to the deal.
But the President issued a direct rebuke to his predecessor in office Barack Obama, who had fumed that Brexit Britain would be "back of the queue" for trade deals with the US.
"This was separate because of Brexit in particular," Trump said on Friday.
"It always seemed so natural."
