Apparently, seven out of ten people believe that the pound will be axed if Britain ratifies the new EU constitution - according to The Sun yesterday.

Yet there’s absolutely nothing in the treaty that says this. In fact, it says exactly the opposite – the UK will never have to join the euro unless it wants to.

So what does this so-called ‘news story’ tell us? Simply that people are confused about what’s in the treaty. Wouldn’t it be more useful for The Sun to cut through the confusion and report the facts – rather than muddying the waters further?