Forget Andrew Marr, Emily Maitlis and Fiona Bruce; if you want to burst a Brexiteer’s hot air balloon, let Billy Bragg ask them a few hard questions.

“Boris Johnson, Farage, Rees-Mogg… I’d wipe the floor with all of them because beneath the bluster, their arguments don’t stack up,” asserts the Bard of Barking as we sit down to discuss The Three Dimensions Of Freedom, his short, sharp polemic, which kicks off Faber Social’s new series of political pamphlets.

Needless to say, Bragg has been inspired – “and profoundly fucking depressed,” he adds with a sigh – by events on the other side of the Atlantic.