Tim Shipman

Brexit’s breaking points

The Brexit vote wasn’t fate. Here are the key things that could have gone differently

Trying to write the first draft of history on the EU referendum and the leader-ship mess that followed had both its dramatic and its comic elements. My phone never stopped ringing with Eurosceptics keen to tell me why their contribution to a meeting that had previously escaped my notice was the decisive factor in securing victory.

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