Here’s how to argue with a Brexiter – and win | Timothy Garton Ash

Details of a tortured Brussels deal are not crucial when the fate of both Europe and the UK are at stake

A new battle of Britain has begun. On its outcome will depend the fate of two unions: the United Kingdom and the European Union. If the English vote to leave the EU, the Scots will vote to leave the UK. There will then be no Britain. Meanwhile, the shock of Brexit to a continent already staggering under many crises could spell the beginning of the end of the European Union.

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