“We must build a kind of United States of Europe. In this way only will hundreds of millions of toilers be able to regain the simple joys and hopes which make life worth living.”
Winston Churchill, the author of this grand European vision, did not see Britain as being part of “Team USE”. Yet it was his Conservative successor Edward Heath who took us in; Margaret Thatcher who signed the Single European Act; and John Major who sealed the deal with Maastricht.
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