It took Britain, America and the Soviet Union roughly a year of intense and technical negotiations to redraw the map of post-war Germany.

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference of 1945 agreed to divide the Axis power and its capital Berlin into four occupied zones.

Their objective was clear: Germany must never become a threat to European or world peace ever again.

But despite the high stakes and complexity involved, an agreement was reached after around 12 months of talks.

Today, our politicians cannot even redraw the map of Oxfordshire, which is neither war-torn nor a threat to Berkshire or any nation for that matter.

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