'Don't reopen old wounds over Brexit'

The Brexit debate was bitter and divisive – it is hard to believe that anyone has fond memories of it, or the even more furious arguments that dominated politics for the five years after the referendum. Families were split and friendships put at risk. Most of us are probably relieved it is now firmly in the past. But not, it seems, the prime minister, Andy Burnham. He has promised a “debate” on Britain's EU membership, opening up the possibility that we might well rejoin. Indeed, another r