24th March 2019

Extraordinary scenes in London, not seen since the Iraq war. One million peaceful marchers plus a petition to the PM of 4.5 million. That’s what happens when the result of a people’s referendum is effectively 50:50 and the government only recognises half the argument. You can’t talk about the ‘will of the people’ when just as many oppose it. And yet I understand the original Leavers’ argument. There’s a clothes firm, just formed from a government start-up scheme, where everything is British: the looms to make the cloth, the manufacture and the factory all in Yorkshire. That’s what used to happen here and which made this great nation famous and proud. But, would this kind of thing be enough today if a no-deal Brexit happens? The risk is too great. The only way is to revoke Article 50.