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Why Britain still wants to fight Europe on the beaches
There are few more seasoned observers of this complex relationship than Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform. He's asked all the time to explain Britons' tepid attitudes to the EU. Part of it, he says, is that we "had a jolly good war and think all the others were either on the wrong side or ran away and were defeated".