Without the methodical testing and fixing that had happened, there would certainly have been many vital systems impacted.

Leave supporters laughed off Brexit fears by comparing them to worries about the Millennium Bug. But now IT engineers have told comic Al Murray how disaster was only averted by years of hard work and planning - and compared that to the seeming absence of planning for Brexit.

Those tasked with fixing the millennium bug reject the idea that it was a load of hysteria over nothing.

Beneath a lot of sound and fury, the main story of this week is that Britain continues to go round in circles over Brexit.