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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been a vocal critic of the EU. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA

Our Government is flawed, but I do not believe we should all abandon it to live in the forest, as tempting as that sounds.

In the same vein, the EU is flawed, but I am not Nigel Farage. This is a fact that I am personally delighted by, especially as our European presidency looms next year.