No Conservative will dare admit the searingly obvious: Brexit is proving a catastrophe for Britain.

Boris Johnson chronically confuses culture and economics of affair called Brexit.

As part of our special edition looking at five years since the EU referendum, Alastair Campbell looks at the silence of the Leavers.

In a 1940 essay, George Orwell made a number of what I think were some astute observations about the qualities of the English ruling class. He saw them as patriotic but “impenetrably stupid”. / “What is to be expected of them is not treachery or physical cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.”

My former Conservative colleagues: ask yourselves what Boris Johnson has achieved, and heed the damning answer

The corruption of constitutional order can happen very quickly and reversing it can take a very long time and at huge cost.

Chlorinated chicken is just the start. The government intends to rip up food standards, public services and public protections.

'Would we have won without immigration? No. Would we have won without...the NHS? All our research and the close result strongly suggests no. Would we have won by spending our time talking about trade and the single market? No way'

If Brexiteers had been more honest, arguing we face perhaps a decade of pain to reset our global stance, I would have more respect for them.

A no-deal Brexit will be grim for patients. Yet gagging orders are being used to keep the truth from coming out.

If we are to have any influence over issues such as the climate crisis, we must reach out to Brussels – not turn our backs.

While businesses struggle with the red tape of no-deal planning, ministers are busy with commemorative coins.