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Ian McEwan clarifies remarks likening Brexit vote to Third Reich

Written By Unknown on Monday, March 13, 2017 | 7:46 AM

Author says his words were ‘garbled’ in translation and he never suggested UK government and Brexiters resembled Nazis

Ian McEwan has clarified remarks he made about Brexit last week in which he was reported as saying that the British referendum reminded him of Nazi Germany.

In a statement issued to the Guardian on Monday, the author insisted that while he deplored the current intolerant and aggressive political climate, he had never suggested that either the British government or those who voted to leave the EU “even faintly” resembled Nazis.

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