Ted Heath in 1973 took the UK into the common market
RECENTLY you have had a few readers writing to Hear All Sides about the common market.
I would like to put these people right.
They say that they voted to join the common market. Well, they are wrong.
Nobody got a vote to join the common market, Ted Heath in 1973 took us in without going to the country.
It was in 1975 that the Labour government gave us a referendum, to stay in, or come out, of the common market.
I hope people in future get their facts right.
Michael Fenwick, Willington
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