Brexit will mark the end of my time as an MEP – but it won’t stop our young from fighting for a better future →
“It would be easy to despair today. When the clock strikes midnight here in Brussels on 31 January, the United Kingdom will be torn asunder from the European Union, British MEPs, like myself, and other UK staff working within European parliament will cease to represent our country here and, for the very first time, a member state will secede from this historic project of peace. Forty-seven years of partnership, of working with a common purpose of progress towards a joint goal of prosperity, will all seemingly come to an abrupt end.
Except that it won’t.
The fate of MEPs like me has been sealed by this deadline, but…”