FOR REMAINERS RADICALISED BY Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, it is a surprise that our anguished debates about whether to join in or stand back from European integration has in fact gone on for decades.
In 1950, Winston Churchill used a Commons debate to needle Clement Attlee for refusing to contemplate joining the Schuman Plan, which led to the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community and eventually the European Union.
A year later, Churchill was back in Number Ten, yet showed no interest in doing what he had previously demanded of
