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...World. It is a highly complex and developed economy and yet the Office for National Statistics estimates that around 6.5% of the population of the UK were in ‘persistent poverty’ in 2014. This amounted to 3.9 million people, the 12th highest figure in the EU. In 2016, over 93,000 households were assessed as homeless in England, Scotland and Wales. The number of people...

...World in 1938 and he is credited with coining the expression but only by people like Boris Johnson who do not know, for instance, that the Cambridge historian Professor (later Sir) John Seeley gave a lecture in London to the Peace Society in 1871, and published in Macmillan’s Magazine, entitled United States of Europe. The campaigns for the UK referendum on Europe have...

...World Trade Organisation most-favoured-nation (MFN) rules. It will also regain its WTO seat and make trade deals with other countries to replace those it enjoys via the EU, with a particular focus on the Commonwealth. In this way sovereignty will be regained. Of the various ways of leaving the EU, something like this “complete Brexit” is the preferred option of many...