A report in today’s I newspaper to warm the hearts of all right-thinking British folk “EU might be better off without selfish UK”, a quotation evidently taken from the German newspaper, Bild.

This follows Mr Cameron’s meeting with Frau Merkel in Berlin yesterday. Evidently they reached an impasse on several issues amongst which were how to rescue the doomed Euro and how to create a better Europe for us all – for which read Germany and France!

At last, our Prime Minister seems to be standing up for the UK and this in a week when he actually described himself as “a Eurosceptic”. Perhaps there is some hope for us after all.