Britain got its way in the EU when it mattered – I know, I was there | John Gummer

We are unravelling the greatest peacetime project of our lives because Brexiteers insist we’ve lost control. But it’s simply not true• John Gummer served as environment secretary in John Major’s Conservative government between 1993 and 1997A continuing refrain of the Brexiteers is that Britain has always lost out to the rest of Europe in negotiations. This derives partly from the way successive governments have portrayed the EU as a battleground in which there is room only