Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.

He then became a regular contributor to Standpoint magazine. His son Harry Mount is also a journalist and his cousin Mary Cameron is the mother of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron leader of the Conservative Party. ISBN 978-1-84737-798-2.

His son Harry Mount is also a journalist and his cousin Mary Cameron is the mother of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron leader of the Conservative Party. He inherited the Mount baronetcy from his uncle William in 1993. He lives in Islington.