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April 2016

We are witnessing a gigantic confidence trick being perpetrated against the most powerful and prosperous people on the planet.
Trumpery is an archaic word for fraud, taken from the French tromper, to deceive somebody. Shakespeare puts it into the mouth of his rogue Autolycus, who boasts of defrauding the gullible with his worthless trinkets: “Ha, ha! What a fool Honesty is! And Trust, his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have sold all my trumpery . . .” (A Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene IV.)
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Undemocratic, inefficient, economically stagnant, the EU today has nothing to recommend it. The case for Brexit is overwhelming
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By putting the left-wing case for Brexit, the party can lift a referendum debate so far dominated by Etonian egos and Little Englanders
 
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If Britain leaves the EU, the West will be weaker. Geopolitical reality makes the case for staying engaged compelling even for Eurosceptics
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The Brexiteers are much misunderstood by my compatriots across the Channel. A Europe of nations is what the continent needs
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Whether over opt-outs, expansion or sovereignty, British prime ministers have consistently been outmanoeuvred by Brussels
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Whatever the economic inequalities between baby boomers and millennials, there has never been a better time to be young