Ted Heath saw: “the growth of a nasty, narrow-minded nationalism, which believes that we can survive without the rest of the world and, in its more arrogant form, that we can just tell the rest of the world what it should do. We think that we can tell the rest of the world, “Do what we say, or else we go”, implying that our loss is so great that they are bound to do what we say.

“In the modern world,” he concluded, “nothing could be further from the truth.”.