‘One of the biggest blows to our productivity – and a self-inflicted one – was leaving Europe’s single market,’ says Michael Day.

Brexit as an ideological project has stripped the government of any sense of basic pragmatism.

New Tory MPs have promised to transform the region, but its greatest threat will come in days, when Britain leaves the EU.

A determined ignorance of the dynamics of global capitalism is bringing about a long-overdue audit of British realities.