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Tory Europhile Dominic Grieve warns of major Brexit ‘trauma’

The Conservative MP tells Financial News how he tried — and failed — to stop worrying and learn to love Brexit

Tuesday, 6 November 2018 at 00:01

CE9YGB Attorney General Dominic Grieve outside the High Court London.. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown.
CE9YGB Attorney General Dominic Grieve outside the High Court London.. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown. Photo: Alamy

“I have spent quite a lot of the last two years trying to reconcile myself to Brexit,” said Dominic Grieve. “Trying to see silver linings to the Brexit cloud, trying to say to myself, ‘Well, actually listen to colleagues, it might be better than I think’.”

That the 62-year-old UK Conservative MP has made serious attempts to embrace Brexit will doubtless surprise his Eurosceptic colleagues. His conclusion, not so much.