Brexit reflections

A decade after the Leave vote, my thoughts on how it all turned out

You probably won’t agree with all of Mr Embery’s policy prescriptions, but he will force you to think outside your usual political grooves — Wall Street Journal

TEN YEARS AGO this very day, Britain voted to leave the European Union. It was, by any measure, a seismic political decision.

I had thrown my heart and soul into campaigning for Brexit. As the national organiser of an excellent little group called ‘Trade Unionists Against the EU’, I spoke in the media and debated at several public events. I even lost my position as a senior union official over my pro-Brexit activities.