'Swallow the lot, and swallow it now': Britain is, and was, deluded about its negotiating power with the EU

Britain is making the same mistake about the EU now as Harold Macmillan did about the European Community in the 1960s, writes Piers Ludlow (LSE). Personal appeals to Général de Gaulle proved fruitless. The EU27 are unbending - not because they bear ill-will towards the British for voting to leave, but because the nature of the EU demands internal unity. ...