Budget rows, referendum pledges, Ukip on the rise is Britain heading for an EU exit? It would certainly be a messy divorce after 44 years. But what would it mean for our politics, prosperity and cultural life?
In a rare uncalculating moment, Boris Johnson wrote last year that, if Britain finally ended its sterile debate over Europe by leaving the EU, it would quickly discover that most of our problems are not caused by Brussels, but by chronic British short-termism, inadequate management, sloth, low skills and a culture of easy gratification and under-investment.
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