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In May 2016, David Davis described the Brexit negotiations as a chessboard where the final checkmate is inevitable.

"My first trip would be to Berlin..."
David Davis imagines negotiating with Angela Merkel: "I want you, Angela, to be able to sell to us completely free and unfettered without tariffs. That's what I want, but WTO rules mean you'll face a 10% tariff, so I want your help in ensuring that we can do a deal."
David Davis: "In 1973 when we joined, it was the right decision. We were a country which was broken down and old and weeping on our history."

He claims this changed in the 90s, coincidentally when the Tory party began to be taken over by Eurosceptics...
Davis describes his time as Europe Minister: "I was known in the German press as Herr Nyet."

He can't tell the difference between German and Russian but thought he could get Merkel to do his bidding. 🤦‍♂️
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Thread of clips from lectures given by Sir Stephen Wall on the history of the UK's relationship with the EU.
On the UK's prevarication about whether to join:

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Foreign Office: "We needn't worry because it won't succeed."
On how the UK only joined after exhausting every alternative.
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Norman Lamont gets mugged by reality (and Mark Carney) on GATT Article 24 and the idea of mutual free trade under No Deal.
A reminder that before the referendum, Lamont thought we'd get a better deal than single market membership... telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/1…
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A bit of a myth has developed that Vote Leave didn't present any plan for Brexit before the referendum. In fact they did, but it wasn't very realistic. (1/x)
Michael Gove gave speeches in which he said we wouldn't need to use Article 50 and could just repeal the European Communities Act without it affecting our trade. (2/x)
The Vote Leave approach was judged to be unworkable at the time by people such as @ProfKAArmstrong of the University of Cambridge who produced this paper. (3/x)

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