The Brexit Club

by Owen Bennet

  I would also like to thank my colleagues at the Huffington Post – Stephen Hull, Paul Waugh, Ned Simons, Graeme Demianyk and Martha Gill – for their invaluable support.

  I am very grateful to my family, in particular Deborah and Michael Horlock, Jennifer and Steve Murphy, Nigel Bennett, Heather Bennett, Mark Berry and Alice, for stepping in and providing some much-needed babysitting as the deadline got nearer. Special thanks to Chloe Bennett and Grace Marshall for helping with research, and Sandra and Manuel Pino for boosting the international sales.

  Finally, and absolutely crucially, I would never have even started – let alone finished – this project without the love, help and support of Alessandra Pino. She is the most selfless person I have ever met, and I will now stop talking about Brexit – I promise.

  And as for Lucia, this book was the reason your dad looked at you over the top of a laptop screen for the first few months of your life. I hope one day you read it and forgive me for that.

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  First published in Great Britain in 2016

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  ISBN 978-1-78590-188-1

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