The “leave” campaign’s slogan was “take control”. Well, now we truly are in control. I don’t mean that in the narrow sense of taking control of certain policy areas from the EU. I mean that we’re in charge of our own fate as a country. The choice we make about how we react to Thursday’s momentous vote will affect the lives of everyone in Britain, and we have to get it right.

If we perpetuate the negativity and scaremongering of much of the campaign, there’s a very good chance we’ll turn the warnings of Project Fear into a self-fulfilling prophesy. As Franklin D Roosevelt put it: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

On the other hand, if we come together behind