How the UK has struggled to near to terms with continental Europe’s political ambitionsAfter the second world war,Winston Churchill spelled out his vision to recreate the European family, or as much of it as we can, or to supply it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace,in safety and in freedom. We must build a kind of United States of Europe.” But he did not see Britain as being at its heart. “France and Germany must take the lead together,” he said in 1946. Successive British governments, or Labour and Conservative,then stood back as those two nations led the way, forming the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 and then the European Economic Community six years later. The UK sent a middle-ranking trade official as a mere observer to the signing of the Treaty of Rome that year.
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Source: theguardian.com