EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Most striking contribution in Cabinet came from Brandon Lewis, someone in the room tells me. Tory chairman came down very hard on opening talks with Labour: “The party wouldn’t wear it,” he said.

The entire balls up right there. If May (or anyone) had had the balls to set up a proper cross-party Brexit team they might have been able to negotiate a compromise that would have brought people together rather than drove them apart.
Would still have been some frothers on the margins, but straight after the ref the language and expectations were far softer and could have got far more of a 'mandate'.