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born 1977 United Kingdom
Allister Georges Freund Heath OBE (born 1977), is a French-born British business journalist, author and commentator. He was appointed editor of The Sunday Telegraph in April 2017.
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But it's not just that we should never have joined: the EU should have kept us out for its own good.
We urgently need an entirely different political class that is willing to puncture our national delusions.
We will never fully recover from our long, debilitating membership of the EU.
There is now a striking correlation between levels of education and holding stupid, destructive ideas, between being highly credentialled and falling for every fashionable conspiracy theory, every tribalistic affliction, every online fad.
The PM apparently believes that he has wrong-footed Nigel Farage by calling an election for July 4; he must now make a bold offer to Reform's crucial electorate. He needs to be firm on Brexit, and highlight how Labour is bound to begin a gradual sell-out.
Politics still matters, as does leadership, vision and statecraft. By sheer will-power, Boris Johnson and his advisers have delivered a radically better deal for Britain, forcing the EU's technocratic juggernaut into a screeching u-turn. It can't be done, we were told, ad nauseam, and yet Johnson delivered, proving that he is, in fact, a statesman.