A new UK premier must start forming partnerships within Europe and ditch the destructive populism that led to Brexit
For all the talk by nationalists about how much they value unity, democracy and tradition, nationalism always turns out to be the most divisive, undemocratic and disrespectful political principle imaginable.
The Brexit variety is no different. It was entirely predictable that it would not so much liberate a sovereign nation from its supposed European shackles as unleash a political elite from any constraints whatsoever.
Guy Verhofstadt is an MEP who served as the European parliament’s Brexit coordinator from 2016 to 2020. He is a former prime minister of Belgium
