How cruel can history be? Having just secured a hard-fought victory over stubborn EU remainers, ‘Team Leave’ finally managed to escape from Brussels' straitjacket of rules and legal patronage on February 1, 2020. Within days after taking back control, however, it already had to surrender the regained sovereignty to an invisible, incalculable and deadly virus. Glory and adversity are inseparable comrades in politics. This edition of my Brexit monitor predicts that the 'walkover' Boris Johnson thought he had secured, will turn out to be an uphill battle instead.