LONDON • Three years ago, as Britons were preparing to vote in a referendum on whether to leave the European Union, Conservative Party lawmaker John Redwood put forward a proposal: Rather than bet on negotiating a favourable trade deal with its former club, Britain should get ready to simply walk away.
But Mr Redwood was an outlier, part of the Conservative Party's eurosceptic fringe.
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