Close military ties with Europe must remain
The British and our continental European neighbours share at least one thing in common. There are times when neither of us can see the wood for the trees. The past few months of Brexit negotiations have been consumed by interminable exchanges on budget contributions, internal markets, WTO rules and passporting for the City of London.
All of these issues are worthy and have to be addressed, but we are left with the wider world assuming that Napoleon was right and that we are, after all, a nation of shopkeepers and not much else. It also implies the same for the French and the Germans, who seem to be having much the same obsessions.… Seguir leyendo »