When he seeks to make sure that I have understood the reasons for the vote, I remind him that there are many reasons, in some cases contradictory ones, and that, in particular, false information has been propagated, such as the £350 million that he and his friends promised to get back from Brussels every week to reallocate to the health service. ‘Yes, that was a mistake’, he says. ‘I told Boris not to do it.’ How cynical can you get?
