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"Do I feel responsibility as someone who made the case publicly for Brexit? Well, Im a Catholic, so I always feel guilty. The older I get the more guilt I feel: I actually apologised to someone who trod on my foot the other day. Do I feel humiliation as a Briton? Never, never, never. I dont confuse my government with my country, and my country muddles on, as it always does, with a sublime indifference to what the rest of the world thinks. We don’t panic."
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Timothy Randolph Stanley is a British journalist, author and historian.

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