Brexit and the British

STEPHEN GREEN was an international banker and Minister for Trade and Investment between 2011-2013. He chairs the Natural History Museum and Asia House, is an ordained priest of the Church of England and is a member of the House of Lords. He is the author of The European Identity: Historical and Cultural Realities We Cannot Deny and Reluctant Meister: How Germany’s Past is Shaping its European Future.

• The shock and its aftermath // 1The British in the mirror: what have we become? // 9Brexit and Global Britain? // 19The history the weighs on Britain // 27Unforeseen consequences // 43The ties that bind us // 47The mirror crack'd? // 55A mature identity for Global Britain? // 59