We helped save Europe: now Europe could save us from Brexit

We are fond of remembering our role as wartime liberators. But now it is we who need help, in the form of an offer to protect us from our folly

'A visitor from Mars would assume that the UK is under attack from a hostile power seeking to destroy our economy and many of our national institutions " But there is no hostile foreign power. The threatened damage is entirely self-inflicted."

This forceful reflection on the state of the nation comes from Sir Brian Unwin, former president of the European Investment Bank, one of the many EU institutions from whose work the British economy has benefited through our membership.