Lard Brexit: did the EU's 30-year fight over 'greasy' British chocolate cause the split?

On the Brexit vote anniversary, Jonathan Coe remembers his days in Brussels covering the cocoa wars – and trying to turn them into a filmThe film was to begin with a shot of the Houses of Parliament. Patriotic music on the soundtrack (“Land of Hope and Glory”, probably). A blustering British journalist in his mid-60s – think Boris Johnson if he had never become an MP – speaking to camera. “London,” he intones. “For centuries, the place where the Br