Will the rise of the hard-Right in Europe lead progressives to question their conviction that civilisation thrives south of Calais, whereas Brexit Britain is narrow and inward-looking?
Lord Tomlinson, who has died aged 84, was a moderate Labour MP and Foreign Office minister, then an MEP and deputy Labour leader at Strasbourg; he complained in 1994 of the British government’s “visceral dislike” for the European Parliament.
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