Over 60 years ago Macmillan commissioned a ‘cake and eat it’ plan for Britain to integrate itself into the rapidly growing Western European economy.
“The possibility of UK cooperation would be so welcome [to Europeans] we should be able to enter more or less on our own terms.”
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… The plan failed because
“UK policymakers had been focused on achieving a domestic consensus.
They had produced a blueprint that was indeed a very good deal for Britain – but in doing so they had paid insufficient attention to other countries’ interests.”
Sounds familiar?
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