Then the Romaine Campaign Collapsed Into a Red Socks

The years when you were Ambassador to the united kingdom were years that the bregit spectre gradually went from being a pie in the sky idea to something actually plausible. I want to ask you partly about how we lost that capacity. So i wonder what you would reflect on in observing that whole process and in the course of your pretty significant amount of time there. What do you think happened at a deep cultural level?