Compare with Germany, France, Italy and even Spain, how industry and manufacturing were the top priority of the right, a centre-right, members of the PPE as against Conservatives who wouldn’t.

The measure of a country’s industrial prowess is the capability to produce products relevant to global demand, needs and desires. One can safely say this capability is also a measure of a country’s ability to keep in touch and on top of the times. I don’t wish to sound flippant, but when Britain chose to disengage from the competition, churning out badge engineered plonkers, relying on ex-colonies to buy the things anyway, it was never going to work. And it didn’t.

How the EU is to blame is your predicament. And you call yourself an Anglophile.

When the right is left with nothing but myth and legend, just wait for the social pact to implode. Which just did.

Malta should never leave the EU, but the UK yes.

Cornwall, for instance, receives GBP60 million a year in subsidies and is now demanding that the UK government should replace and ringfence. They don’t say on what principle that should happen, other than unenlightened self-interest.