The 'out of Europe' lobby deploys its trustiest weapon

The biggest gaffe made by Britain's pro-Europeans is being exploited by the 'out of Europe' lobby, reports Emily Hohler.

Britain has enjoyed a "narrow escape", says Allister Heath in The Daily Telegraph. The "economic catastrophe" unfolding in Greece demonstrates the painful consequencesof getting rid of a national currencyonly too clearly. Only countries that control their own currency can "create more of it to cushion downturns".

Had we not been able to "print ourselves out of trouble" after the financial crash, the recession would have been far worse and we would have faced a "Greek-style default". The UK's best economic decision of the past 20 years was a "negative one": not to join the eurozone when we were being pressurised to do so by "vast swathes of the UK and international establishment".

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.