The LSE’s Tony Travers talks to shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn MP about Britain and Europe on 17 March 2016. Benn campaigned for Britain to leave the EU in the 1975 referendum. He explains why his view of the EU has changed and why he believes Britain should stay, based on a vision of a social, peacekeeping Europe. “We take the world as it is for granted and assume it is ever thus, and always will be.” You can also listen to the Soundcloud podcast.
“Social Europe” is Benn’s invention. The reality is clearly “Corporate Europe” and with TTIP it will be strongly corporate. See History of US creation of EU.