‘I ’ve got a weird feeling,” Arron Banks told The Times’s Lucy Fisher before the EU referendum campaign began, “that British politics will be realigned after the referendum.”

The Farage-funding tycoon’s thoughts are worth noting. A sort of Holy Fool of the Ukip establishment, Mr Banks seems careless whether what he says hurts or helps in the daily grind, yet his reasoning often cuts through the froth. You can, for instance, imagine Leave spin doctors wincing this week at Banks’s remark that George Osborne’s “£4,300 per household” cost of Brexit would be a “bargain basement” price for regaining our sovereignty — yet there was a deep truth in it. Unless the Leave campaign are able to summon up a St Crispin’s day vision of