It’s not just the EU that is alienated by Brexit. It’s Japan too | William Keegan

Nissan, Honda and Hitachi were the pillars of an Anglo-Japanese accord dating back to the 1980s. That deal is now in ruins

The damage becomes more palpable by the day. So, far from winning a 350m-a-week boost to the NHS, we find that the mere prospect of Brexit is costing the economy 800m a week.

And this is only the beginning, unless the madness can be stopped. I have pointed out before that her crucial contribution to setting up the single market was one of Margaret Thatcher's finest achievements (the finest, according to Kenneth Clarke) and I say this as one who was not slow to criticise what I still regard as her originally misconceived approach towards British industry. That sado-monetarist period of the early 1980s was so disastrous that it provoked the chairman of ICI to go to Downing Street and ask the prime minister whether she wanted the company to remain in Britain. We now have present-day industrialists in a similar state of despair.

I still hope that a second referendum will allow voters to have second thoughts, and young voters to have first thoughts