Accommodating Brexit

Are there any expressions other than ‘the elephant in the room’ to connote the ignoring of big, obvious things? If so, it would be useful to know them as that poor old elephant is now the most clichéd of clichés to describe the government’s attitude to Brexit. In their speeches to this week’s Labour Party conference, Rachel Reeves mentioned it only briefly and in passing, and Keir Starmer not at all. It’s absurd, especially as the guiding theme of both speeches, as of the government’s entire inc