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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics

Forget closer EU ties if Tories can’t face up to Brexit truth

An EU flag flies opposite the Parliament
‘Brexit was a man sawing off the branch he is sitting on.’ Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Timothy Garton-Ash is right to be worried that Brexit Britain’s political class is now monolingual, with very little personal contact with deciders in the EU (If the UK wants to rejoin the European Union, it first needs to understand it, 15 June).

He lists pro-EU forces in politics and polls, but it is an error to assume that politicians will not buckle and bend faced with the united onslaught of media Europhobia, especially the Musk-Vance bottomless purses to campaign on behalf of Donald Trump against Europe.

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