Tim Aker: Fifty years on we should not forget the first Brexiteer - Sir Neil Marten

Tim Aker: Fifty years on we should not forget the first Brexiteer - Sir Neil Marten

Dr Tim Aker is the Academic Director of the Margaret Thatcher Centre and editor of ‘The First Brexiteer: The Diaries of Sir Neil Marten’.  He writes at A Place in History on substack. Fifty years ago, yesterday, Neil Marten led the ‘No’ campaign into a bitter defeat in the 1975 EEC referendum.  By two to one the country voted to stay in the European Community. So who was he and why was this relatively unknown character chosen to chair the ‘No’ c…