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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Nicole Wootton-Cane

Former Brexit boss says Britain should rejoin EU after failed ‘heady promises’

Britain should consider rejoining the European Union after none of the Leave campaign’s “heady promises” materialised, the man who led the country’s departure from the bloc has said.

Philip Rycroft, former permanent secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union, said there needs to be a “clear-headed appraisal of what is in the country’s best interests” and that life outside the EU had not lived up to lofty expectations.

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