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Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, has made an important intervention on the ongoing Brexit debate, as British voters consider their decisions on the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum. Sikorski, no stranger to making honest commentaries on the pros and cons of leaving the EU in the past, has warned pro-EU activists and politicians that Britain would not get a similar deal to its previous EU membership - and that those who wish to rejoin really need to “internalise the fundamental European deal”. In other words, stop fooling themselves about the ramifications of EU membership.
“Without that homework, we wouldn’t want you as a member, because you would be unhappy, and we would be unhappy,” he said - and quite right too.
Though he reminded the audience in attendance at the defence conference he was a speaker at, that he has repeated stated Poland would welcome the UK back into the EU, that it would only do so for a UK that actually accepted all of the rules and knew what they were. He went on to say that "[The UK] wouldn’t get that kind of deal today [as it had before], which means that you probably would reject the deal".
The Guardian recorded his full statement in detail, which can be read on their live blog here.
UPDATE: Former Brexit negotiator and Advisory Council member, Lord Frost, has written a piece in The Telegraph on this story, which you can read here.
