Why politicians should treat Brexit as policy and not an identity issue - The Yorkshire Post says

But to say that it was a clear cut decision overlooks the nuance of policy. And indeed the Leave campaign made a string of claims that have either not come to fruition or turned out to be patently false.

The people who voted for Brexit, had a right to see it implemented in the name of democracy.

However, Brexit must not be treated as an identity issue. So politicians, who are currently shouting at just the idea of closer economic ties to the EU, should stop treating it as such.

Ordinary people do not care about “protecting Brexit”, especially when they can’t afford to heat their homes and feed their families.

And those that are labelling the idea of a Swiss-style arrangement with the EU as betrayal should remember that it was one of the models that was widely pushed by prominent Brexiteers during the referendum in 2016.

At the heart of the debate is the issue of truth. Both those who chose to leave and remain deserve to know the truth.

The world is a very different place to what it was six years ago. The country faces one of its greatest economic challenges in several decades.

Only last week the Governor of the Bank of England conceded that “there is an effect” from leaving the EU on the country’s economic underperformance.

If a closer relationship with the EU helps Britain out of the economic mess that it finds itself in, then it should be welcomed.

That’s what policy should be about. Making people’s lives better, not worse. Successful policies change and adapt. Policies that don’t work are scrapped or replaced. Brexit is no different.