Cameron's Man in Brussels Evokes Thatcher as `Brexit' Odds Drop
- U.K.'s EU commissioner says `everything would be uncertain'
- Thatcher made speech outlining EU vision in Bruges in 1988
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It was Margaret Thatcher’s landmark speech on her vision for the future of the European Union that helped define her premiership and the U.K.’s decades-long frosty relationship with the rest of the bloc.
And 28 years later, with the country teetering closer to ‘‘Brexit’’ -- a British exit from the EU -- than at any time since, the U.K.’s European commissioner paid his own visit to the Belgian town that gave Thatcher’s speech its name, to set out the case for Britain’s continued membership.