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26 January 2017

Molly Scott Cato: “The single market means we know where food comes from“

In the first in a series of having cake and eating it, the Green MEP and economist explains the single market. 

By Julia Rampen

“Here we sit with tea and sweet cakes,” says the Green MEP Molly Scott Cato. “That comes from the period of history we are talking about.”

We are sitting in the airy, retro back room of Drink Shop Do, a tea shop near London’s St Pancras station, where Scott Cato will catch the Eurostar back to Brussels. In front of us is a Chinese willow teapot, two cups of Yorkshire Tea, and cakes. 

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