Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn, who recently met with Prime Minister Theresa May over the Japanese car company's future in Britain following the Brexit vote.David Parry/PA Images. All rights reserved.Tony Blair is right! Yes, even I have difficulty in believing that I could have written those words. For decades I have had profound disagreements with Blair and his policies when leader of the Labour Party. Indeed I believe that Blairite doctrines and a record of disastrous wars injected near fatal toxin into the bloodstream of the labour movement.
But the fact remains that when Blair states that the EU referendum outcome does not end the debate about British membership of the EU – he is correct.
He is also right when he points out that the narrow Leave majority cannot be taken as endorsement of the eventual terms the British government negotiate for leaving the EU and certainly not for the precise relationship Britain – outside the EU – would have to accept with its closest neighbours and economic and political partners. As matters stand, no one outside Theresa May’s cabinet has the foggiest idea of what … the government is minded to accept.
