Britain would be better off if MPs voted according to their beliefs | The big issue

The adversarial nature of Brexit politics is making politicians afraid even to represent their constituentsThe key phrase in Rachel Cooke’s interview with Anna Soubry (“Who’d be a Brexit rebel?”, New Review, last week) was “picture [her] crossing the floor of the House of Commons”. Therein lies the basic reason why UK politics is in such an unholy mess: the idea that if you’re not with us you’re against us, the whole adversarial principle that keep