Pioneering Channel Tunnel construction worker admits: "I voted for #Brexit' ...

I worked on the Channel Tunnel and done the breakthrough, but I actually voted for Brexit

Graham Fagg

Graham Fagg was pictured with French counterpart Philippe Cozette on December 1, 1990, 100 metres below sea level as they broke through the final section of rock separating the English and French sides. Scarcely four years later, the Queen and then-French President Francois Mitterrand performed a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the new rail link in what is now known as Eurotunnel. Speaking before the 25th anniversary of the tunnel’s opening on May 6, 1994, Mr Fagg, now 70, said: “I worked on the Channel Tunnel and done the breakthrough, but I actually voted for Brexit.

“But I don’t see that it’s incompatible.”

Mr Fagg explained he backed the European Economic Community - the entity which was to become the EU - in the 1975 referendum but did not realise it would eventually become a political union.

He told AFP: “We voted for a trade deal.

“I can’t remember anybody ever saying to me, ‘we’re going to turn it into a federal Europe.

Graham Fagg and Philippe Cozette exchange flags deep as they meet halfway (Image: PA Archive)

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