Image: London Brexit protest, March 2017. Wikicommons, Creative Commons License.
One passage of Theresa May’s ‘Florence’ speech to raise eyebrows was her claim that the UK never felt “totally at home” in the EU. “Perhaps,” she reflected to an audience of British journalists, “because of our history and geography, the EU never felt to us like an integral part of our national story in the way it does to so many elsewhere in Europe.”
Prominent Brits from Simon Schama to J.K Rowling to Lord Adonis bristled at the suggestion, pointing to the narrow margin for Leave and the fact that for many Britons, the EU is an integral part of their story.
