In 1792, William Pitt stood up in the UK parliament to call “an atonement for our long and cruel injustice”. Doesn’t that count as an apology?
The British have proved stubbornly democratic in the face of their own elites and a shadow central government in Brussels.
An unlikely coalition between Tories and Labour, conservatives and radicals, toffs and plebs is about take the UK out of Europe and into a truly independent future.