H
owever Brexit eventually pans out, it should mean the end of the Tories’ three-decade-long civil war on Europe. No doubt the “Spartan” warriors of the European Research Group will engage in some guerrilla tactics from time to time, but, for the Conservatives, the battle should be done. The “party of Europe”, which took the UK in under Ted Heath in 1973, and which pioneered the single market under Margaret Thatcher in 1986, is now the “party of Brexit”. The pro-Europeans have either been purged or quietened by the 2019 election result. ‘
However, Brexit is now looking to become a much more tricky issue for Her Majesty’s Opposition.
