

Read moreĬHAPTER I THE WARNING FROM CATO THE YOUNGER Why have we risked all this? Ask the guilty men, who, for reasons of personal gain, misplaced ideology or sheer folly, have jeopardised all our futures. When it voted to leave in 2016, it had the fastest-growing economy in the G7,and it was both the world's top soft power and one of its most creative and tolerant nations. When Britain entered the EU in 1973, it was known as 'the sick man of Europe'. 10, while the ground for Britain's departure was sown over many, many years. The vote to leave took just a single day, but the decision to call the referendum followed several months of agonising in No. Some predict it will lead eventually to the break-up of the UK, others to the end of the EU, others to an enhanced likelihood of war in Europe and beyond. No development since the Second World War is likely to have more far-reaching consequences for the British economy, society, politics and culture. Britain's 2016 vote to leave the EU was the most momentous democratic decision ever made in British history.
