I was a Remainer, but I'm sick of the economic doom and gloom – Brexit is an exciting opportunity to do things differently 

Press quote (The Telegraph)
Sophia Besch
06 May 2018

After all, even after Brexit, Britain will remain “a European liberal democracy, with almost identical security interests to the remaining EU countries”, as Sophia Besch of the Centre for European Reform puts it – so it is odd to treat us as a strategic rival.