The Telegraph: 'I supported Remain, but if there were another referendum today I would happily vote to stay out'

Despite the visceral hostility between them, Robert Jenrick and Liz Truss have much in common: like the majority of Conservative MPs ten years ago, for instance, they both voted to Remain in the EU.

As much as they, and others, have tried to talk it down since, much of the mainstream British Right were Remainers. And I was one of them.

As the journeys of Jenrick and Truss show, though, British politics has changed almost beyond recognition since then. But there are some, especially in the Lib Dems and the Labour Party, who want to see Britain’s relationship with Europe back at the centre of national debate – possibly even put to the people in another referendum.

If it was, I wouldn’t repeat my pro-Europe vote of 2016. In the words of one of the original European campaign groups from the 1970s, my view would be: “Keep Britain out!”

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