It's amazing how, in all this talk of another vote, we've forgotten about the crucial principle that Cameron forgot when he set up the referendum, that if you want to make a massive and irreversible change of direction then the bar for change must be set very high. The original vote was marginal and unconvincing and the whole matter should have been dropped there and then. A similar close vote in whatever cockup of another referendum is magicked up would solve absolutely nothing. It reminds me of that old Irish joke in which a chap asks another chap for directions to another town. "Well if I were you I wouldn't start from here," came the reply.

I can't see a way out of this that isn't going to pitch this country into big trouble. I'd like to see our politicians pulling the plug on the whole thing, taking us back to the halcyon days of pre-2016, then ducking.