The former Foreign Secretary is currently the runaway favourite to be the next Prime Minister, securing 126 MPs’ votes in the second ballot yesterday. He campaigned for Leave in the 2016 referendum, resigned from the Cabinet over Theresa May’s Chequers deal last year and has now promised to take the UK out of the EU by October 31 – deal or not. However, it was during his role as Brussels correspondent for the Telegraph between 1989 and 1994 that he noticed something about the EU which he believes guarantees its failure.
He claimed the overarching problem is the inherent differences between the nation states and how, even in Brussels, people keep their own values and culture and do not integrate.
He said: “The longer I stayed in Brussels – and I served five happy years – the more obvious it was that it would never work.
“The Germans had German dinner parties, the French had French dinner parties.
“The British sent their children to play cricket at the British school in Tervuren.
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“The Danes
