The more we learn about the rank incompetence of the Belgian security forces in dealing with Islamist terrorists, the more the argument unravels that continued membership of the EU makes Britain a safer place to live.

In the past week we have had luminaries such as Home Secretary Theresa May and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe declaring that Britain’s security would be seriously compromised if we chose to leave the EU in the June referendum.

I would be most interested to know how they could possibly justify that this preposterous claim when measured against the catalogue of catastrophic failings made by the Belgian intelligence forces that resulted in last week’s disastrous attacks on the country’s capital.