John Stevens is a former Conservative MEP and founder of the Pro-Euro Conservative Party. He contested Buckingham against John Bercow and Nigel Farage in 2010, coming second.
Making London a truly global financial centre again, with all that would imply for Britain’s place in the world, could quickly become more attractive than the apathy of decline, however proudly sovereign.
There is a case for the EU guaranteeting internal as well as external frontiers – which would make Scottish independence impossible were the UK to remain an EU member.
The referendum was at least as much a vote against London as against Brussels – and those whose expert arrogance made them seem to many to be foreigners here.
European Unionists know that know that only an eventual deepening of our commitment, including, above all, joining the euro, will secure our membership.