"There is nothing socialist about a system of open borders that allows multinationals to treat people as commodities and move them around Europe to drive down labour costs and create a race to the bottom." Finally, someone stated the obvious.

Voters have been asked, and, in Northern towns in particular, have not shied away from letting their feelings be known, in every election since this debate was first ignited. Rather than yet more questions, we urgently need a government willing to actually listen, not to what they wish to hear, but to the message the voters are actually communicating.

How does the Prime Minister look at a country already fractured by political division, mistrust and hostility, and conclude that reopening the Brexit and free movement debate is a good idea? After a decade of division, why reopen the very fault lines we should be trying to heal?