1. Some years ago I asked the veteran British diplomat Sir Michael Palliser when he decided that the EEC/EU was the best course for Britain. He replied, ‘On a tank in the Netherlands during the war’. /
2. Visiting Coventry Cathedral reminded me what Palliser and other British diplomats built in Europe after the war - key components of the structures, rules of EU institutions and the rights of European citizens. I hope the EU will remember them - regardless of Brexit. 
