Gary Oldman on Sunday won the best actor Oscar for his stunning portrayal of Winston Churchill as he became Britain's prime minister in May 1940 in "Darkest Hour".

Having just watched the movie “Darkest Hour”, there is no escaping the parallel between what Britain faced in 1940 – when Hitler’s Nazi Germany was running amok and poised to conquer the rest of Europe – and what we face today with Brexit. We stood alone then and prevailed, as surely we must now.