Heathrow’s announcement of its post-Brexit investment plans shows how business can adapt quickly to circumstances it did not want. The airport supported Remain in the Referendum but has now announced that it still has big plans to develop its facilities to make the United Kingdom more open to the wider world. adding 25,000 more flights to its existing annual limit before a third runway is even decided.

This is just one way in which the Brexit doomsters are being proved wrong. It is happening in part because of the spirit of enterprise that runs through the veins of British businesspeople, and because the UK is more capitalist in nature than other European countries. Honda, for example, is investing £200 million in Swindon to make it a bigger exporter to the non-EU world, and as SoftBank's bid for ARM illustrated foreign, companies want to buy UK assets. Contrary to the prophecies of Remainers, sensible, grown-up businesses do what is profitable and what gives them a good return; they do not sulk because the voters did not do what they wanted.