Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire

Books on Brexit explaining how and why parts of Britain voted to leave the European Union are falling hot off the press.

Some promise the full story of the political manoeuvring that got us to this point, others promise to make sense of the vote, with a couple focusing on the supposed evils of immigration and Islam.

Here, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson tell a different story.

They argue that the EU referendum was part of a last gasp of empire working its way out of the British psyche.

It is a view of empire largely based on myth and nostalgia.