Christopher Booker and Richard North

This fourth edition celebrates the moment when the UK broke away from the European Union.

The Great Deception tells for the inside story of the most audacious political project of modern times, from its intellectual beginnings in the 1920s, when the blueprint for the European Union was first conceived by a British civil servant, right up to the point when the UK resumes its path as an independent sovereign nation after 47 years of membership.

Drawing on a wealth of new evidence and existing sources, scarcely an episode of the story does not emerge in startling new light. The book chillingly shows how Britain's politicians were consistently outplayed in a game the rules of which they never understood. It ends by evaluating the post referendum negotiations and asking whether this is the end of an episode or just a new beginning.