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

The European Union (withdrawal) bill will expose faultlines that run from top to bottom in both main partiesAlmost 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 matter MPs were about to discuss was, Douglas-Home told them, “momentous”. The motion to be voted upon stated that “this house approves Her Majesty’s governm