The 1975 referendum which "ended once and for all" the previous doubts about support of the British people for membership of the European Community

Letter sent to the Guardian:

In his  book The Governance of Britain, published in 1976, the year he resigned as Labour prime minister due to illness, Harold Wilson wrote (at page 76) following the 1975 referendum on the European Communities ( later Union)  "It (the promise of a re-united Government) was decisive in securing an overwhelming majority in the referendum, which ended once and for all the previous doubts about support of the British people for membership of the European Community."

The late Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, as he later became, must be revolving in his grave at the latest series of improbable political events over Brexit.