Summer madness: how Brexit split the Tories, destroyed Labour and divided the country

In a day-by-day account, Harry Mount gives an insider's tale of the three chilling weeks of mass blood-letting due to Brexit.

As events unfolded at a scarcely believable pace he found himself close to the centre of events.

He talked with many of the principal combatants, even as he wrote articles for the Evening Standard, the Spectator and the Sunday Times, and it is this unique level of access that has made for a compelling narrative about the referendum which will be seen in years to come as the definitive event that changed the United Kingdom, and quite probably Europe, forever.