ON Saturday there were 700,000 people marching in London to call for a people’s vote on Brexit. I was there, marching behind the North-East loves EU banner.

Brexit would be damaging to the economy, and especially so up here in the North-East of England, with up to a 16 per cent reduction in its economic output according to a recent government report.

Whilst the Brexiteers have not been able so far to present a cohesive realistic plan commanding a majority in parliament, there has been (according to the polls) a shift of opinion in favour of remaining in the EU.

Those marching on Saturday believe that the Brexit outcome should not be decided by whichever faction prevails in the Conservative Party, a party representing only 42 per cent of the vote at the last elections (less if we voted now), but by a people’s vote.

One of the placards at the march read: “If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy.”

Giuseppe Enrico Bignardi, Durham