'UK Should Get Out of the EU,' Says Former French PM

Michel Rocard, a grandee of the French Socialist Party, has
identified Britain as the source of all the EU's problems

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Britain should leave the EU and the British elite is the only thing holding the people back from doing so, says former French prime minister

Britain should leave Europe because it is killing the European Union dream, a former French Prime Minister has said.

In a blistering attack, Michel Rocard, a grandee of the French Socialist Party who served as premier under Francois Mitterrand, identified Britain as the source of all the EU's problems.

"Britain is a great country that has always refused that to allow Europe to interfere in its affairs. It has blocked any further integration," he told Trombinoscope, a French parliamentary magazine.

"If they go, it becomes possible to respond to the needs of governing in Europe. Even Germany realises this and demands it. I hope for it a lot because they have prevented it from developing, they killed it."

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