Yes we must take back control, not from Brussels – from Whitehall | Simon Jenkins

While local council budgets plummet, centralised government gains ever more power

Take back control. After two bloodstained years in British politics, it remains the one Brexit slogan with a modicum of potency. It drips with self-righteous empowerment. It depicts remainers as shiftily in thrall to Brussels, while shielding Brexiters from the charge of mere xenophobia. It is also utterly cynical.

In a recent series of interviews for this paper, John Harris travelled the country, going “anywhere...