Take. Back. Control. Which of those three little words did they not understand? The leading advocates of Britain leaving the EU somehow failed to comprehend the scope and the difficulty of the question they set themselves and the process is now out of control. Meanwhile, the nation is condemned to play the argument from the referendum campaign on endless repeat.

We are squabbling our way towards the cliff-edge. The only way to avoid a crash landing is for the sensible people, those who never wanted this in the first place, to take back control.

Yesterday the government published its European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, which incorporates accumulated EU law into the English legal system. The effect of the bill is to repeal the 1972 European Communities