Britain must make a radical move if it is to avoid the snare set by Brussels, which wants Brexit to fail, writes Greece’s former finance minister
Yanis Varoufakis
September 10 2017, 12:01am, The Sunday Times
Varoufakis arrives at a meeting in Athens while he was the Greek finance ministerGETTY
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