In December 2016, only six months after the Brexit referendum, there was a by election in the constituency of Sleaford and North Hykeham, Lincolnshire, part of an area where 62% of voters had backed leaving the EU. The local Tory MP had resigned over his differences with Theresa May and her government over its treatment of refugees, international aid and attempts to cut parliament out of the Brexit process – and thereby triggered a contest defined by the idea that we had to confront the EU and escape its grip … Continue reading The Tories’ Brexit obsession has no future in a changing Britain. They just won’t admit it