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Why is the EU obsessed with forcing regulatory alignment on Britain?

1 October 2019

8:19 PM

1 October 2019

8:19 PM

I still don’t quite understand the position of some ardent Remain supporters. I do not understand why allowing the UK to leave, and then starting up a campaign to rejoin was rejected. After all, that is what the last line of Article 50 invites the state to do by invoking the process in Article 49 (the process to re-join).

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