In This Blessed Plot, Hugo Young, one of Britain's foremost political commentators, provides an insider's history of Britain and the European Community, utliziing a wealth of new material and the insight gained from a mass of interviews with the principal participants. Young builds this story of Britain's relationship with Europe around the role and record of each leading player in the drama, starting with Winston Churchill, the false prophet of what Europe would become, and concluding with Tony Blair, the first unambiguously pro-Europe prime minister to be elected since Britain joined the Common Market in 1973.