Rudyard Kipling ‘would have been a Brexiteer’
RUDYARD Kipling would have backed Brexit, his biographer has claimed.
Andrew Lycett said he was often asked where the poet and novelist would have stood on Europe and Brexit, given that he was particularly anti-German but had a ‘fervent love’ for France.
Speaking at the Chalke Valley History Festival, he
said: ‘With his conservative respect for the British constitution, he would almost certainly have been in the Leave camp.’
When asked later to expand on his point, Mr Lycett said: ‘Kipling was a great Englishman. In his poems, he was always writing about political issues. I don’t think he would have liked Brussels.’