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Samuel Brittan

Samuel Brittan is a former economics editor of the Financial Times and an advisor to UK Chancellorsm of the Exchequer

The German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, pictured with Margaret Thatcher, believed that a single European currency was God’s gift to mankind
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Thank goodness governments were too cowardly to take us into the euro

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