Jacques Delors was the father of Brexit – without the UK, his vision is turning to reality

A French Eurocrat determined my career. It was thanks to Jacques Delors that, as an 18-year-old undergraduate, I set up the Oxford Campaign for an Independent Britain. It was in opposition to his plan for political amalgamation that, with the Tory MP Michael Spicer, I formed the European Research Group. It was because Britain could never be comfortable inside a European superstate that I spent 21 years as a Eurosceptic MEP, recruited Matthew Elliott to be chief executive of Vote Leave and, in th

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