A victory won by Brexit lies does not make those lies true

How can we believe that a party wedded to deregulation and flirting with Trump's America will ever govern for 'one nation'?

The Chinese proverb is "be careful what you wish for". My own adapted version is "be careful what you vote for". I make no apology for having devoted so many columns to what on Thursday became the lost cause of Remain. The pro-European cause in this country has, alas, suffered from a colossal failure of leadership. The failure to make the case for our EU membership goes back a long way, as does the drip-drip of the vile anti-European campaign in the Murdoch press, and the obvious suspects in other sections of the media.

The sequence of events was well brought out in Denis MacShane's prophetic book Brexit - How Britain Will Leave Europe in 2015. (What lies in store is outlined both in MacShane's latest volume, Brexiternity, and Sir Ivan Rogers's recent magisterial lecture at Glasgow University.) As MacShane wrote in 2015: "The referendum on Europe is not on the benefits or cost of EU membership, but a wider protest about economic and social change which appears inside Britain to produce as many losers as winners."

For reasons that I fail to understand, Corbyn and his allies, such as Seumas Milne, believe that the EU is some kind of capitalist conspiracy