{"id":34069,"date":"2016-07-14T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=34069"},"modified":"2016-07-14T22:43:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T21:43:08","slug":"david-davies-on-the-eu-brexit-and-referendums-in-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/14\/david-davies-on-the-eu-brexit-and-referendums-in-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"David Davis on the EU, Brexit and referendums in 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1996 David Davis was in John Major's government. He was interviewed by the EC's in-house newspaper (Commission en Direct). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Documents\/DavidDavies.pdf\">article is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the most interesting \u00a0bit, perhaps, but there is plenty more to enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/14\/david-davies-on-the-eu-brexit-and-referendums-in-1996\/screen-shot-2016-07-14-at-14-13-08\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34070\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34070\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-14-at-14.13.08-550x600.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-14 at 14.13.08\" width=\"550\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-14-at-14.13.08-550x600.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-14-at-14.13.08-275x300.png 275w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-14-at-14.13.08-206x225.png 206w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-14-at-14.13.08-121x132.png 121w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-14-at-14.13.08.png 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/14\/david-davies-on-the-eu-brexit-and-referendums-in-1996\/screen-shot-2016-07-14-at-14-13-19\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34071\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34071\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-14-at-14.13.19-550x413.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-14 at 14.13.19\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-14-at-14.13.19-550x413.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-14-at-14.13.19-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-14-at-14.13.19-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-14-at-14.13.19-176x132.png 176w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-14-at-14.13.19.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Settled for good, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Would he like to add anything to that now?<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip to Mike Parr.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1996 David Davis was in John Major&#8217;s government. He was interviewed by the EC&#8217;s in-house newspaper (Commission en Direct). The article is here. This<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/14\/david-davies-on-the-eu-brexit-and-referendums-in-1996\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}