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Will the rise of the hard-Right in Europe lead progressives to question their conviction that civilisation thrives south of Calais, whereas Brexit Britain is narrow and inward-looking?
Lord Tomlinson, who has died aged 84, was a moderate Labour MP and Foreign Office minister, then an MEP and deputy Labour leader at Strasbourg; he complained in 1994 of the British government’s “visceral dislike” for the European Parliament.
STEPHEN GLOVER: This article is not written in any spirit of sour grapes. I should have no objection whatsoever if one of several respectable companies bought the Telegraph
QUENTIN LETTS: On their walk to No 10, Mr Mitchell stayed half a pace behind his new Secretary of State, as decreed by political etiquette.
The channel’s boss, Paul Marshall, is a mini-Murdoch who wants to buy the Telegraph. If he succeeds, could Johnson be destined for the editor’s chair?