It’s possible I have mentioned before that Brexit is boring, but it seems it is now government policy too.

Theresa May has told her cabinet that Tory polling shows the public is not following the ins and outs of Brexit, and ordered her ministers to concentrate on the domestic agenda.

One person who knows the PM well told me recently that she “comes alive and gets really animated” when discussing her mission to tackle burning injustices, whereas she sees Brexit as a “solemn but burdensome duty”. It’s something dull and technical to get through, a means not an end.

A new poll by Britain Elects/D-CYFOR found that 35 per cent of people think Brexit is the biggest issue facing the country, and only 14 per