It isn’t just Remain campaigners who are scared about what happens next

Anyone who hasn’t been living in a cave for the past week or so will by now be growing increasingly tired of the repetitive and overly emotional responses of camp Remain. But what the visceral social media posts and pessimistic articles in the media have revealed is the genuine fear felt by many Remainers. These are people who are actually, and in some ways justifiably, terrified by the prospect of us leaving the EU.

However, at a debate hosted by Spiked and The Institute of Ideas, ‘Brexit: the battle for democracy starts here’ last week, I experienced first hand the other side of the coin. Many of the victorious Brexit-supporters, who you’d imagine to be elated by the referendum result, are in fact just as frightened as their opposite numbers.

After seeing support rise into the millions for the second referendum petition, and reading the plethora of articles desperately attempting to find a constitutional loophole that could save us from the eternal damnation of Brexit, these people are afraid.