When the Brexit Referendum was first mooted two Labour MPs, Mike Gapes and my husband, John Mann, were pretty much alone in their scepticism of holding a referendum. Both pointed out that the problem with one-off referendums is that people inevitably vote on other issues, not the matter at hand. They were proved correct. In my constituency few people were voting on the EU issues constantly debated in Parliament. They voted on how they saw the wider world, on their insecurity at work, failing

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