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Britain is becoming Brussels on Thames

16 May 2023

10:19 PM

16 May 2023

10:19 PM

Whatever happened to Singapore on Thames? Weren’t we, after leaving the EU, supposed to be forging a future as a deregulated, low-tax, business-friendly enclave situated 20 miles off Calais? It isn’t quite looking that way at the moment. We are reinventing ourselves as Brussels on Thames – only more so.

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