Heather Stewart

So, for example, we were members of the Common Agricultural Policy, a widely agreed to be pretty ridiculous subsidy scheme for EU farmers.

We are no longer members of that and farmers will complain about this.

But the government designed a scheme which now pays farmers for doing things that are good for the environment, whether it's planting crops that help bees or setting aside crops.

That is one of the areas where we've had to step back and have a rethink about something that we didn't think about for a long time because it was all subcontracted to Brussels.

You know, I was asking someone else the other day about potential advantages and they were talking about the fact that we have labs doing great work on...

innovative food, so genetic modification of food, because that is one of the areas where we have slightly weaker regulations now than the EU, because we felt this was a sector we could be good at, where we're the good UK scientists doing interesting work.

So I'm told that's a sector where we're sort of pushing ahead.

So there are some areas in which we have been able to go our own way.

It just hasn't quite been as broad based, I think, as the Brexiters imagined.

I think it inevitably will, because it is determining the shape of our economy, really.

It has had a massive influence on our, as we've discussed, on our migration debate, which is still running very hot and will continue to do so.

And it has changed the shape of our political parties, in particularly the Conservative Party, which...

You know, in some ways you can argue it's been kind of broken by Brexit, right?

They were riding high, they were governing party and they're now seen as not posing any kind of... So I just think it is, I think it's changed the makeup of our politics and our sort of establishment in the broadest sense.

It's still shaping lots and lots of little daily decisions in the way that the economy and the public sector work.

But it's also still shaping national debate in a way that isn't going to go away.

And as we were discussing, if we do have a coronation of Andy Byrne, Brexit is going to play very, very heavily in that debate too.

That's something to look forward to.