Fraser Nelson Fraser Nelson

Brexit blunders

The party hierarchy still fails to understand the true motives of those who wanted out of the EU

issue 21 April 2018

A few months ago, Britain’s most senior ambassadors gathered in the Foreign Office to compare notes on Brexit. There was one problem in particular that they did not know how to confront. As one ambassador put it, the English–language publications in their cities (it would be rude to name them) had become rabidly anti-Brexit: keen to portray a country having a nervous and economic breakdown.

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