Mark Littlewood, Truss’s confidant since Oxford, was one of many who went from being pro-Europe in the mid-1990s to staunchly Eurosceptic by the mid-2010s. He recalls how different ‘Europe’ was viewed to a young free marketeer in the 1990s: ‘On the face of it, the European project was on an exciting, liberalising trajectory’ he wrote in the Telegraph ‘It was about removing barriers erected by nation states in order to facilitate trade and free exchange. Over many years – and only incrementally – did the EU’s obsession with regulatory conformity oblige free-market liberals to seriously question
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