Taking back control?

TAKING back control. That was the core promise of the leave campaign’s message in the EU referendum. In the final televised debate it was repeated in almost every intervention by all three of its advocates. Little more than three days on from Vote Leave’s stunning victory, any semblance of control has been sucked out of great tracts of the political realm. The Metro, the free sheet read by most commuters across the UK, caught the mood beautifully. Over a front page picture of an illuminated House of Parliament it noted; “The lights are on but nobody’s home”.