Britain’s Distrust of Europe Helped Cause Brexit. Now It Could Stop It.
“I will not belly dance in front of them to gain their trust,” one European lawmaker said.
by Yasmeen Serhan
Mar 19, 2019
3 minutes
LONDON—When Brexit-backing lawmakers voted twice to reject Theresa May’s negotiated deal on the terms of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union, they did so largely out of distrust. Principally, they worried that the prime minister’s plan would risk binding the country to EU rules and regulations indefinitely, and that the EU, contrary to its many assurances, would act in bad faith to see that happen.
Distrust of Europe and its institutions here in Britain is hardly a new phenomenon. In fact, it was one of the central themes underlying the Brexit campaign. But this
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