“It is 50 years old, it is going in the wrong direction. It is time for real reform. The only way to get that is to leave.”

—  Tony Blair

Boris Johnson: EU exit 'win-win for us all' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35783049, BBC News, 11 March 2016
2010s

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