Perhaps one of Mrs Thatcher’s most unexpected legacies was the Channel Tunnel, connecting Britain with France by rail. Not only did it seem to belie her Euroscepticism, but she was known to dislike the railways and only travelled on them a couple of times during her premiership. It’s still a surprise to remember that it was under her leadership that the decisions to build the tunnel and to make it a rail-only connection were made. The tunnel and in particular the Eurostar services which hurtle between London and Paris (and, ironically, Brussels, the headquarters of the European bureaucracy) were intended […]
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