Scottish Liberal Democrat Environment spokesperson Christine Jardine has reflected on the EU referendum as her daughter sets out on a journey round Europe. She thinks back to how her grandmother felt seeing her son go to Normandy – to fight in a war. She imagines her horror and panic when he briefly went missing and was found injured. All this, she argues, amounts to a powerful case to stay in the European Union:

My daughter and her friends have already visited Thiepval, the Normandy beaches, a concentration camp.

They have studied that period of European History which is about to pass from living memory, and regard it as their own, as Europeans.

When they talk of either World War what I hear is not blame or criticism of other nations but a recognition that, as a continent, we screwed up.

And they do not talk in terms of former enemies and allies, but of neighbours, fellow Europeans with whom we are building a common, and better, future.

France, Germany and Italy can be as familiar and accessible to all of us as the Highlands or the South of England.

After this trip one of the group will be studying in Germany for a year as part of a European programme, while the planning for this month included potential stops with an old school friend in Spain and a return to Lyon to revisit chums from a student exchange.

That, for me, is the foundation and raisin d’etre for European integration.

Yes our jobs and trade are protected, and enabled, by membership.

Yes, we have a larger voice on the world stage by virtue of our place in this largest of trading partnership..

And yes we have the common security from external threat that co-operation bring us.

But more than any of those we have a means to protect our children and grandchildren from the fear and conflict which stalked our grandparents.

You can read her whole article here.

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