Took a little while to find this but here you go: https://www.richardcorbett.org.uk/daily-mail/
I was born in 1975 so didn't take part in the last referendum, obviously. But it was made incredibly clear, both by politicians and in the press at the time, that increasing political union was the goal of the European project. It was still within 30 years of WW2 and the cold war was overshadowing the continent. Divisions were stark and union was correctly seen as a way of avoiding the situation that led to the rise of fascism and communism. There was never, ever any doubt that this was about political union and it would appear that although there were doom-mongers at the time (mostly from the left) the facts were better-presented than in 2016, which has proven to have been mostly lies.
Do read the newspaper cutting in the link. This particular support for political union came from none other than the Daily Mail. Then again the editor at the time wasn't a don-dom billionaire tax dodger. Or mind you, he might have been; I have no idea who was editor at the time.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
