For Brexit aficionados the start of this week felt comfortingly familiar: late-night negotiations with Brussels over fishing quotas, and even complaints about betrayal. There was, however, one big difference: the Conservatives were united.
It is one of the great political paradoxes of recent years, that a party that repeatedly tore itself to pieces over Brexit is now speaking on the subject with one voice, while much of the rest of the country appear to have lost interest.
