Queen Elizabeth sends a Brexit message to bickering MPs
The British media was clear about the significance of her remarks; The Times headline read, ‘End Brexit feud, Queen tells warring politicians’
London — Queen Elizabeth has sent a delicately coded message to Britain’s factious political class over Brexit, urging lawmakers to seek common ground and grasp the big picture to resolve the crisis. With the clock ticking down to March 29, the date set in law for Britain to leave the EU, the UK is in the deepest political crisis in half a century as it grapples with how, or even whether, to exit the European project it joined in 1973. While the monarch did not mention Brexit explicitly in an annual speech to her local Women’s Institute in Norfolk, she said every generation faced “fresh challenges and opportunities”. “As we look for new answers in the modern age, I, for one, prefer the tried and tested recipes, like speaking well of each other and respecting different points of view; coming together to seek out the common ground; and never losing sight of the bigger picture,” the queen said. Though steeped in the conventional language the queen has made her hallmark, the remarks in ...
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