"They are too busy down in the trenches, fighting their last heroic battle – an attempt to force through a bill which aims to scrap 4,000 EU-derived laws by the end of the year. By failing to explain how specific sectors would benefit from divergence, however, many voters will be wondering what the point is."

Well it's lost in the mists of time now, but I seem to remember arguing many moons ago with a certain T*erib*us and his sidekick Keith, rest him, that the UK had agreed enthusiastically with around 95% of all the EU rules and regs, we were umming and ahhing over about 3% more and were not happy with about 2%. After all, we were involved deeply in the drawing-up of 'em and were a highly-influential partner... So be prepared for another spell of Tories-not-running-the-country whilst vast tracts of parliamentary time are wasted...