“A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.”

— Enoch Powell

Speech in Tamworth (15 June 1970), from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 563.
1970s

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