Missing targets defining decency: Report sets agenda we can’t dodge

When the history of the Brexit debacle comes to be written, and depending on who writes it, the assertion by Britain’s then justice secretary, Michael Gove, in June 2016, that “people in this country have had enough of experts” may be recognised as a call to the basest instincts of an uncertain, unnerved electorate longing for a return to the imagined magnificence offered by the catchall deception called “sovereignty”.

Gove made that bizarre assessment in an interview in which he also ruled himself out as a candidate for the Conservative leadership.