Crunch moments in the Brexit process are becoming more frequent and more momentous, and the public are taking notice. New polling by Populus shows that Brexit gained a greater share of attention last month than at any other point this year.

Every week Populus conducts a poll to find out which news story, political or otherwise, the public have paid most attention to. Here we share with Red Box the results for July.

In the week that the government narrowly won its customs bill vote in the Commons, 31 per cent of the public said that Brexit was the news story that they had paid most attention to — the highest percentage since December. Google search interest in Brexit hit its highest point for more