Right-wing newspapers have joined Brexiteers in venting their fury that Britain’s departure from the EU is not happening today.

With a disorderly Brexit on the horizon, a timely lesson in humility may be fast approaching.

If there was a vote to leave the EU tomorrow, only 36 per cent would vote out - compared to 52 per cent in 2016.

Brits have pledged never to go through the port of Dover again after long queues at customs made the journey intolerable.

Former Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston has told The Independent she is too afraid to advertise meetings in public because of death threats and abuse – and said some of her former Tory colleagues are to blame for encouraging a culture of violent hostility towards politicians.

When the most anti-EU newspapers are pointing to the policy’s inevitable failures, it’s time our government admitted the truth.

MPs accuse transport secretary of dangerous scaremongering in attempt to prop up PM’s deal

As crises mount, the polls show voters turning at last. But the national newspapers that backed Leave – even the two now edited by Remainers – continue to pretend there is nothing wrong.

In October 2015, I gave a speech to international journalists in Germany called, ‘Newspaper lies can cost lives.’ Less than a year later, Britain voted for Brexit, with one of the main reasons cited as ‘too many migrants’. How did such a fear and dislike of migrants develop? Newspaper lies played an enormous role.

For many years, Daily Mail journalists have used underhand techniques to ensure Britain left the EU. / In the years leading up to the EU referendum, and since, the Daily Mail has published a daily deluge of stories that spread hatred of migrants and the EU.

The Mail’s chief revenue officer has said Brexit was bad for advertising – even though the brand has been one of the most vociferous backers of quitting the EU.

Williams is pushed to expand how Brexit has impacted business. “That is definitely having an effect on advertising spend, because of the UK economy,” he replies.

The UK’s most-read national newspaper titles have shown a strong bias favouring Brexit, Press Gazette analysis of the final month of campaigning shows.

The London bureau chief for Germany’s public broadcaster reflects on Britain’s government.

Boris Johnson’s Trumpian remarks on the “deep state” will almost certainly have a destructive effect on British democracy.

There is an air of desperation in attacks from those on the right and their supporters in the press. They fear if Johnson falls, the Brexit deception will crumble too.

We may never know exactly what Conservative MP Chris Heaton-Harris intended to do with the information he tried to obtain on academics who teach about Brexit. But it certainly shouldn’t be treated as “just a polite request for information” as if this were some routine event.