A couple of weeks ago I attended an excellent one-day conference at Chatham House, organised by Stephen Quigley for the European Movement to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome. A lot of very eminent people - including Kenneth Clarke, Peter Mandelson, and Charles Kennedy - said mostly the same absolutely right things about the EU’s great successes.
There was much less - though some - discussion of what happens next in the story of Britain’s relationship with Europe. I think there is some chance that the logjam of a British public - and especially a British press - hostile to ”˜Europe’ might be about to start to break. I’ve tried to put my ideas together into an article setting out my view of the situation - which you can now read on my website here.