Churches across the UK will this weekend be singing a new praise song that “aims to build unity in our church and our nation post-Brexit”.

With Britain having left the European Union at 11pm yesterday, the singer-songwriter Andy Flanagan said that his song Reconciled (for Brexit and Beyond) would apply some balm to church communities left bitterly divided by the government’s protracted attempt to carry out the result of the in/out referendum in 2016.

Flanagan, who is also a director of Christians in Politics, helped to organise Brexit debates in Anglican, other Protestant and Catholic churches in 2019, but was shocked by some of the bitter arguments that ensued.