GLOBAL BRITAIN MUST LEAVE LITTLE EUROPE BEHIND

THE BUSINESS, Leading article

A proper internationalist future for Britain in the 21st century cannot conceivably lie in ever greater integration with a European continent in inexorable economic, social, cultural and geopolitical decline; nor does it lie in becoming the 51st state of America, which soft-headed leftists like to sneer is the only alternative to Europe. Of course there is a clear alternative to both. Britain should regain its right to set global trade and military alliances and strive to become an international trading nation and a crossroads to the world. For that, a cultural revolution will be necessary, involving a reorientation of British foreign policy towards Asia and Latin America; free trade; a radical programme to liberalise the British economy and to inject choice and competition into the public sector; a renewed emphasis on education, including the rescue of British universities from the dead hand of the state and the creation of a UK Ivy League; and constitutional change to repair the damage brought about by membership of the EU and the hyper-centralisation of recent years to ensure that Britain remains an open and accountable society.

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