Is a divided Brexit parliament up to the biggest task for generations?

Almost 46 years ago, on 21 October 1971, the Conservative foreign secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home rose in the House of Commons to open what had become known in the country as “the great debate”.The motion to be voted upon stated that “this house approves Her Majesty’s government’s decision of principle to join the European Communities on the basis of arrangements which have been negotiated”.The country was deeply divided over whether the UK should throw in its