Prime ministers rarely invoked EU membership as a cause for celebration. But we should resist allowing the triumph of the inevitabilist argument that the UK’s membership was always doomed to fail. The UK’s membership of the EU was, in ways too numerous to do full justice to here, a good thing. The fact that you can (generally) trust your food, your medicines, your motor cars and much else owes a great deal to the UK’s membership. Britain’s membership amplified its influence in the rest of the globe.

Source: The Guardian January 26, 2020 09:16 UTC