There’s been a lot of talk, the last few days, about the need to respect “the sovereign will of the British people.” A simple question was asked, a simple answer was recorded.

Like the main party leaders on both sides of the referendum, most commentators on the Left seem to agree with Owen Jones, that whatever happens there can be no argument for reversing the expressed democratic will of the British people — what is done is done.

The people have spoken. Don’t the basic principles of democracy require that our government now simply do what we’ve told it to do?