Silvana Altamore

Lord Rose, Chairman of Asda, criticises Brexit "We are the architects of our own demise. And our own demise started in 2016 when we made the ridiculous vote to come out of Europe" "Now, you would say, well, you're an old moaning remainer, but of course I am. But of course, if you look at the stats, nobody has yet convinced anybody that coming out of Europe was the right thing to do" "And by setting the barrier so low, if you like, at a 50% majority, most of those people, dare I say it, who were the one or 2% who got them over the line to get us to do Brexit, have died because they were mostly older people" "Ask young people today if that's what they wanted. Ask if that's the right thing to have done. Ask business leaders to know, are they happy with the result? And the answer is no. So we made a big mistake" "Everything that has happened since then, apart from the one big factor, which nobody could have predicted, COVID has a link back to what we did when we came out on Brexit"