The reality in Westminster is that nobody wants to talk about Brexit any more

Editor’s Letter: Outside of Nigel Farage and his Brexiteers, there seems to be little in the way of celebrations or protests planned for the day itself

It is one of the oddities of Westminster life that sometimes the most historic moments take place in the most downbeat of ways.

After three years of impassioned speeches, knife-edge votes and furious debate over Brexit in the House of Commons, when the act enabling the UK’s departure from the EU finally became law, it was definitely a case of “not with a bang but a whimper”.

There were about 30 MPs on the green benches at 2.33pm on Thursday, when news that the Queen had granted her royal assent to the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill reached the Commons, interrupting a debate on Holocaust Memorial Day.