John Stevens: Rees-Mogg and Johnson have a point – Brexit may indeed be pointless

Many Leave voters may dislike the necessary kowtowing to President Trump just as much as they did our deference to Brussels.

John Stevens: Homage to Caledonia

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.

John Stevens: I am passionately pro-EU. But here’s why I believe Johnson was right about patriotism.

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.

John Stevens: Leave won – but now we must all face up to the divisions in our nation

The EU issue was used to disguise other problems. Now that disguise has been stripped away.

John Stevens: It is the principle of the EU, not the renegotiation of the terms of membership, that matters

Focusing only upon the detail and evading the general is becoming a most damaging addiction.

John Stevens: The angst of a “euro-fanatic”

Like the Scottish referendum, this referendum cannot really bring closure.

John Stevens: A last word on the Metropolitan Party, and a first on a New Unionist Party

European Unionists know that know that only an eventual deepening of our commitment, including, above all, joining the euro, will secure our membership.

John Stevens: The struggles of Bercow, and the rise of UKIP and the SNP, tell the same story about our democracy

Only radical parliamentary reform will restore popular trust in Westminster – and the Speaker cannot be part of it.

John Stevens: The four point EU reform programme that Cameron should push now

If he wants Britain to stay in, he needs a programme which can both address concerns here and win support abroad.

John Stevens: The unity of the Conservatives is now a threat to the unity of the country

The hanging-together of the Tories has become an obstacle to creating a new patriotic consciousness