The tide turns on Brexit?

Who will speak for Brexit? Two years ago, not even the Liberal Democrats were promising to take Britain back into the European Union. Now Andy Burnham can float the possibility of full reversal and is greeted only by complaints that it all sounds like a lot of trouble. Where, oh Boris, is thy victory? Where, no deal, is thy sting?

The prime minister marked the post-conference return of Parliament with another epic “Ask Me Anything” session on Abroad. There’s quite a lot of Abroad, and things keep happening there, so it was a long freewheeling session, going over two hours and taking in everything from Iran to a Chinese production of The Phantom Of The Opera. But surely, we thought, this would be the moment that the mighty forces of National Sovereignty, whose very name once broke governments, would assemble. Surely at long last we were going to hear the Music of the Right.