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Britain was utterly wretched in 1975. No wonder Europe seemed a better bet

28 April 2018

9:00 AM

28 April 2018

9:00 AM

‘I voted to stay in a common market. No one ever mentioned a political union.’ It is the complaint of an entire generation — the generation, by and large, that switched its vote between 1975 and 2016. It is also, as Robert Saunders shows in this eloquent history of the earlier poll, based on a false memory.

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