Here’s Ken Clarke talking about the EU referendum: ‘He made the most remarkable decision, to hold a referendum on Europe. He did so purely for the purposes of managing his divided party for which it proved a total failure. He thought he could unite the warring factions by renegotiating better terms which he duly tried to do, coming back with a few minor changes. He was infuriated to discover that the members of his cabinet divided into competing camps and fought on different sides of a bitter campaign…’ Thing is, the ‘he’ in this case is Harold Wilson in 1974, not David Cameron in 2016. Modern political history was obviously not on the syllabus at Eton and Oxford…
“A ‘no-deal’ Brexit will be devastating”
I quoted Overheard Bloke in the Gym Changing Room not long after the referendum: ‘We should say ‘You’ve had your last cheque, Merkel’, close the borders, job done!’ If we’d followed his sage advice rather than fannying around for four years, we’d have been through the...
