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Jon Worth, an EU observer and lecturer at the College of Europe, has insisted that Brussels is unlikely to pursue any reforms to the treaties which govern the bloc. This is despite moves by Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to open a discussion on the future direction of the European Union after Brexit. Mr Worth added that EU leaders are fearful any attempt to ratify reforms via public referendums would result in humiliating defeats as happened during attempts to alter
Boris Johnson has sealed his place in British history as a weather-maker Prime Minister.
Historians tend to separate those premiers who make the political weather – that is, change the entire zeitgeist of their times – from also-rans who merely go along with whatever the established view is at the time.
But by getting Brexit done as promised, and on such favourable terms for the UK, Boris will be seen by history in the former, much more illustrious group.
There is nothing ignoble about being an also-ran premier. Many achieved useful things in their times. Harold Wilson founded the Open University. Gordon Brown protected the financial sector from meltdown during the Great Crash. David Cameron won the Scottish and Proportional Representation referendums and instituted gay marriage.
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I am a European. I lived many years in Brussels. I rather love the old place. And so I resent the way we continually confuse Europe â the home of the greatest and richest culture in the world, to which Britain is and will be an eternal contributor â with the political project of the European Union. It is, therefore, vital to stress that there is nothing necessarily anti-European or xenophobic in wanting to vote Leave on June 23. We are seeing a slow and invisible process of legal colonisation, as the EU infiltrates just about every area of public policy