How admirable that MPs want to amend Brexit. It won’t work | Matthew d’Ancona

The Commons is coursing with radicalism, but there’s no way to break the impasse that doesn’t involve a fresh referendumConstitutional folklore is notoriously unreliable. Liberal statesman John Bright, for instance, did not, as is so often claimed, declare in 1865 that the British legislature was “the mother of all parliaments”. That particular distinction he accorded to England. Likewise, and more importantly, it is not true that parliament is sovereign. That authority i