No, M Juncker, David Cameron did not “destroy” the United Kingdom.

Jean-Claude Juncker could have been invented by Nigel Farage’s spin doctors. He is sneering one-man advert for Brexit, Frexit and any other kind of EU-exit. As Hugo Rifkind argues in this week’s magazine, he is a caricature of the arrogant Eurocrat: “smug, lazy, unelected and utterly impervious to anything.” He is a notorious boozer, and managed ‘head of state’ by running Luxembourg, which a country with a population about the size of Sheffield. His ascension to President of the European Commission embodied everything that was wrong with the EU, a huge signal that it was time to abandon ship. When Michael Gove was once at a party and asked to make up a version of John Lennon’s imagine, his first line was “imagine there’s no Juncker/It’s easy if you try.” And try we did. Without Juncker, I suspect the 2016 EU referendum would have ended in victory for Remain.

An inability to understand Britain, or the British, informed the series of disastrous decisions made by the EU that led to its losing the UK.