Throughout the EU referendum campaign, the Remain camp have been boasting that expert opinion is on their side. Over the past week, however, the Brexit camp have started to fight back.

“I think people in this country,” declared Vote Leave’s Michael Gove, “have had enough of experts.” His fellow Brexiteers were quick to back him up. “There is only one expert that matters,” said Labour MP Gisela Stuart, also of Vote Leave, “and that’s you, the voter.” Nigel Farage, the leader of Ukip, suggested that many independent experts were actually in the pay of the Government or the EU. All three reminded voters of occasions when “the so-called experts” had made mistakes.

Anti-expert sentiment was soon spreading across the land. “Experts,” snorted a caller on Jeremy Vine’s Radio 2 show, “built the Titanic.”

A post-Brexit Britain, we must hope, will be free of experts, and their insidious expertise. But who exactly are “experts”? Where did they come from? What do they want? And why do they think they know so much better than the rest of us?

Here, exclusively in this column, Michael Gove presents his guide to the experts who bedevil our great country.