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Jeremy Hunt’s Soviet-EU Comparison Is Absurd
The U.K. foreign minister leans on false rhetoric to justify Brexit.
Hunt could do with some history lessons.
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Jeremy Hunt, the U.K.’s foreign secretary, likened the European Union to the Soviet Union at a party conference on Sunday, earning him predictable rebukes from the EU and, specifically, from member states that were parts or satellites of the USSR. His comments deserve a more nuanced discussion, if only because he isn’t the first to draw the parallel.
In accusing EU negotiators of trying to punish the U.K. for Brexit, Hunt said: