Dan Hannan
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Dan Hannan is a political commentator known for his insights on Brexit and European politics. This interview reveals his strategic thinking as he navigates complex political issues and advocates for a clear, principled approach to governance.
“In philosophical terms or specific policy Well, when Thatcher was still Prime Minister, for example, I backed her in her centralization of power, which I think looking back now was disastrous. I wish I had seen then what I can see now, that rate capping and reducing the power of the GLC and so on was calamitous.”
“Well, the EU is not a settled dispensation. It's evolving all the time. And the way I see it, we've stepped off a conveyor belt. So stepping off the conveyor belt, you're literally moving, but actually it's the conveyor belt that's moving faster and in a direction that you didn't want to go.”
“Well, so Peru in the early 70s had a dictatorship and private property and the rule of law were seen as contingent and fragile. Assumed that. I can remember, though, just about my very, very earliest political memories.”
“That's right, all of this was happening around about 1991 with astonishing rapidity. Europe was just a total non-issue in the 80s, you know, and the first glimmer that it was going to become an issue was Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech, which was as late as September 1988.”
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