Were I the new British PM,...
xx July 2019 10 Downing Street Death, destruction, and a long war... The world was in flames. Recently, we and our present allies around the world, including Germany, commemorated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, which for the western theatre of the Second World War was its great turning point. Europe remembers. And with that memory in the decade following Germany's surrender and that of Japan's, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands came together and formed what would be the original core of what is now the European Union. On 1 January 1973, the United Kingdom joined what is now the European Union, and on 5 June 1975, we voted in public referendum to remain a part of what is now the European Union. Since that time, we have helped to mold and shape this new Europe, becoming an integral part of the best parts of its mission and purpose: to bring about a framework of the continued cessation of violence which had plagued the continent fo