Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

I know people are fickle.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.