The decisions are for those at the head of the Conservative Party but I believe they should set a timetable on the process.

The Brexit brigade will call foul. But the simple truth is that any deal they would welcome will never get through Parliament. That is our constitutional crisis. There are only two ways to resolve this crisis and they are a general election or another referendum.

I sat alongside John Major as his Eurosceptic colleagues bled his colleagues to defeat. They have now brought down Mr Cameron and marginalised an outstanding Chancellor. So those now seeking leadership of the Conservative Party should remember, in their claims to unite the party, how far Mr Cameron got in his attempts to do deals with them.

Once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane. It took

Nigel Farage years to build up this hostility to Europe. Nonetheless,

huge numbers of Tory voters would never have been persuaded to vote for arguments with undertones of intolerance and racial division all too familiar from the lips of Donald Trump in America and Marine Le Pen in France.