Leaving the EU Would Be Leap Into the Known

This week the Remain campaign for the EU referendum – Britain Stronger in Europe – will launch. Its chairman, Lord Rose, says that leaving the EU would be “a leap into the unknown”. It is a strange way to put it. British independence is not at all unknown – it was our condition for our entire history until we entered what was then the European Economic Community in 1973. It is not even unknown to Lord Rose himself: he was 23 years old at the time.