Brexit lies do not bring freedom: the truth alone is sovereign | William Keegan

Even Leavers seem to be dimly recognising that the size and reach of the EU made Britain stronger than departing ever will

The surest recipe for killing a lie is to multiply the witnesses to truth." This observation by the 18th-century statesman Charles James Fox is quoted by the veteran foreign correspondent - and sometime independent MP - Martin Bell in his memoir War and the Death of News.

Bell writes about the distortion of news - a practice made into an art form by Boris Johnson's friend Donald Trump. The quotation is surely pertinent to the way that the lies about the wonders of Brexit are falling apart as the truth of what the Brexiters have wreaked unfolds in front of our eyes.

Membership gave the UK a share in the accumulated sovereignty and bargaining power of the EU in a world dominated by the US and China