I celebrated on January 31. Not only because Britain left the European Union formally on that day — though I think it is right and sensible to do so — but because it means that we remain a democratically governed independent country. Let me explain.
Yes, I think it is good, and perhaps inevitable, that we are leaving the EU. The high hopes with which the original project was launched in the 1950s have become tarnished.
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Robert Tombs is Professor Emeritus of French history at University of Cambridge and a fellow of St John's College.
