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Lexit: The biggest unicorn of them all

Lexiters who portray the EU as mostly underpinned by Hayekian neoliberalism have got it wrong, writes Paul Walsh.

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Grace Blakeley writing in the New Statesman fires her guns at the EU, the bogeyman of Britain’s right and left for a generation, and calls for Lexit as the radical left policy of choice.

But is the picture she gives an accurate view of the EU as it was, is, or can be? And is the Lexit she presents even possible?