Press Association has this on Lord Lamont's latest intervention. Former chancellor Lord Lamont has sought to play down divisions within the Conservative Party over the EU referendum, saying there "ought to be a reconciliation" after the vote. The Tory peer said arguments between the differing viewpoints needed to be "kept civil", adding disagreements were not "sensational" but "inevitable" in the run-up to the referendum. Asked if he could see the party and the Government genuinely being able to knit itself back together under David Cameron whatever the result, Lord Lamont told Sky News' Murnaghan programme: "Yes I do actually. I think people are very conscious of what happened in the 90s and Conservative backbenchers don't want to go back to that. "At the same time they do want to have a debate. I think the Conservative Party and the country is obviously more Eurosceptic than the Cabinet are and there will be a very robust argument." A lot of people, he said, "appreciate" that the Prime Minister had given the party and the country the opportunity to hold a referendum even if they disagreed with him. He said: "I think after it is over, let's say Remain win, I think then there ought to be a reconciliation, people ought to say well 'thank you' to the Prime Minister for having had this referendum and let's back him." He added: "This is a referendum, obviously it opens up arguments between the parties, I think it's got to be kept civil, but I don't think it's sensational, there are disagreements between members of the Cabinet and the Prime Minister, that's going to be inevitable when there is the referendum."