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What would Thatcher do?

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Margaret Thatcher's Negative Negotiations in Europe

She was capable of prescience that even after leaving, there was a speech she gave in the United States afterwards. She had been removed from power in large part over her European opposition to the European Monetary Union. The speech is remarkable when you read it back in terms of its ability to see what had happened. And this world of being opted into some parts of the European Union and opted out has been referred to by people like Neil Ferguson as this Brexit 1.0.

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