On this day: Brits vote in referendum that changes everything Opinion The Brexit referendum was 10 years ago today. A decade on, very little has been resolved, says Eliot WilsonThere have only ever been three UK-wide referendums. Appealing directly to the electorate on a single issue through a plebiscite fits awkwardly with parliamentary government, as Enoch Powell told the House of Commons in 1972: “The essence […]