In his first face to face TV interview, a scoop for Robert Peston in his new role as political editor for ITN, the former Tory leader and foreign secretary warned that were Britain to vote to leave, this would seriously destabilize the EU to nobody’s advantage, least of all our own, and if that were not enough, lead to the potential break up of the UK as the Scots who want to remain in the EU, up stumps and declare time on the Union.
That has been this blog’s view for many months and it is reassuring that one of the Tory big guns, some still feel the biggest, reports that though in many aspects a Eurosceptic before, he has come to the view that in the world of today, with all its pressures and problems, in is better than out. Quite right.