Lied to from the start

The Sun today runs an interesting piece by Ruth Lea, the director Global Vision, on the EU. She says that her organisation polled people on their views on the EU: should we leave, stay in a looser economic market or stay in and obey the rules.

Unsurprisingly, a quarter wanted to leave, a quarter to stay and the other 50 per cent wanted to stay in a free trade union but opt out of political and economic union.

On the same page, The Sun's leader column says: "Our political leaders must listen to the new organisation Global Vision.

"They must say NO to any attempt to raise from the dead the idea of a new European Constitution. They must REJECT any extra interference. They must LISTEN to the British people by taking back powers from the Eurocrats.

"And they must DEMAND that the EU goes back to being the Common Market that was envisaged at its birth half a century ago."

The Sun is wrong. The original purpose of the EU's founders was always an economic and political union - it was never intended just to be a "common market".

The whole story is told in detail in my colleague Christopher Booker's excellent book The Great Deception.