The Leave campaigns understanding that renegotiation of trade terms with the EU will be easy is absurd. We will be suppliant outsiders,just as we were in the 1950sWhen I told a senior government official that I had do £20 on Brexit as an insurance policy – we believers in Europe will need something to cheer us up if the vote goes that way – his reply was: “Only twenty quid?”This reaction epitomises the extremely gloomy mood among most of my pro-European friends and acquaintances. And while they dismiss Alexander “Boris” Johnson’s antics as beneath contempt, many people are surprised at the way my ancient friend Lord Lawson is putting himself around as someone who boasts about living in France but is blithely relaxed about the prospect of Brexit, and indeed actively propagating it.
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Source: theguardian.com