In Downing Street last year, I was sitting with David Cameron and George Osborne listening to a summary of that day’s newspapers when we were told of an article saying I might be Britain’s next European Commissioner. At a time of many grim tasks, this report provided a moment of welcome hilarity – for my colleagues knew that the likelihood that I would want to take myself off to Brussels and work in the heart of EU bureaucracy was about the same as me volunteering to sweep the streets in Timbuktu.
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