'A tumultuous week for the European Union, and our relations with it, included the publication on Monday of a remarkable opinion poll.

It showed a majority of the British respondents in favour of leaving the EU: 49 per cent, against 40 per cent who wished to stay in. How times have changed. When the same polling organisation, ICM, asked that question ten years ago, only 19 per cent wanted to go, while 68 per cent wanted to stay.'

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