East West Street is described by John Le Carré as “a monumental achievement” and he is right. It is work of the highest order and it deserves to be as widely read as possible. It is, I reiterate, a masterpiece.
When it is all over; when the UK has voted and decided one way or the other on whether it wants to remain in the
But there is a chance – a chance – that as well as restoring British democracy it will encourage our fellow-Europeans to realise that it must surely possible to come up with a better set of arrangements for encouraging trade, peaceful co-existence and co-operation in Europe than the dismal old EU. Britain and the rest of Europe must be able to do better.
No-one can accuse the Chancellor of the Exchequer of failing to throw everything at rescuing the campaign to keep the UK in the EU. His latest contribution is to threaten an emergency budget within weeks of a Brexit vote, in which he says he would increase taxes and cut spending.
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