I should also like to hear how leavers reconcile their bleating about getting back the sovereignty of parliament, taking back control, etc., with the fact that parliament has not been consulted about the unilateral decision by Theresa May alone that the vote meant that we leave the customs union and single market, a question never put to the country, parliament or even her own cabinet. And that's on top of the Henry VIII power-grab and the thwarted attempt to bypass parliament in invoking Article 50. We've seen this democratic deficit, ironically something the EU is supposed to be guilty of, persistently resorted to by this government. "Democracy is a great idea as long as it suits the Tories" appears to be the new Tory mantra.

By the way, in my last post the sentence "All the arguments for remain that we've articulated far more clearly during the referendum..." should have read "...since the referendum..."