In the division lobbies on Tuesday night I found myself with ardent leavers, Scottish Nationalists and Labour MPs as we joined together to reject the prime minister’s proposed Brexit deal.

This strange alliance is not only a reflection of how the debate over departing from the European Union is overturning traditional politics. It is also a product of the many different reasons that the electorate were given to vote leave in the referendum.

People were offered no single vision for Brexit in 2016. Some saw it as a way of cutting European immigration, others hoped it would allow people to arrive here from elsewhere in the world. There were those who said it would mean a new era of free trade, but also those who