Take. Back. Control. Three short words. One clear mandate. But for many of those on the losing side in the EU referendum campaign the very clarity and force of that message are still too much to take.

The vote to leave the EU was the single most important political event of my lifetime. It was a victory secured against the weight of City money, the strength of the political establishment and the expectations of nearly every expert commentator in SW1. One might have thought that such a victory, against such odds, would have prompted a period of reflection, if not an outbreak of humility, among those who had got the country they profess to speak for so wrong.

Michael Gove talks Brexit

But, with a number of honourable exceptions,