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Thatcher took UK further into EU than any PM since Heath [audio 30min]

BBC News special correspondent Allan Little looks at how the European Union was created, from the devastation of World War Two to its current incarnation as a new kind of superpower. Focusing on key moments along the journey, he analyses Britain's contradictory relationship with 'Europe'. In Programme 3, "Breaking Down the Borders", Little looks into the completion of the single market and Margaret Thatcher's complicated relationship with Europe, publicly so bullish about sovereignty and rebates -- and yet in many ways taking Britain 'in' further than any Prime Minister since Edward Heath. Contributions from Jacques Delors, Lord Douglas Hurd, Lord Geoffrey Howe, Sir Bernard Ingham and Lord Charles Powell.
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "Forging the Union"