Is it possible Nigel Farage will go down in history as the great herald of British Europeanism? After all, he did say “a 52-48 result would be unfinished business”.
Let’s backtrack to that result. On the morning of 24 June last year, two things were already clear to Labour. The first was that Article 50 was now inevitable, whatever barriers and legal obstacles any diehard Europeans could throw up. The Government which succeeded David Cameron’s needed to deliver on Brexit to satisfy the new internal politics of the Conservative Party first, and to respect the referendum result second. This has since …read more
Source: New Statesman
