What Tomatoes and Turnips Tell us About ‘Sovereignty’

Is independence compatible with prosperity?

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I have fond memories of summer holidays with family friends in the early 1950s in a village near Swansea. A short way up the road from the family home was a small nursery where we would go to purchase tomatoes. We followed the elderly gentleman that owned the business into his greenhouse. He would show us which fruits were the…