Poland's former deputy prime minister tells Business Insider why he's running for Change UK.
Jan Rostowski, former Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, who will stand as a Change UK candidate in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom.Change UK candidate and former Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jan Rostowski speaks to Business Insider.He says he has"fundamentally" changed his views on homosexuality in recent years, following controversial comments unearthed this week.
Now, he has returned to London to try to stop Brexit, which he calls"the worst thing that has happened in Western Europe since the Second World War." He is standing as a London candidate in the upcoming European elections for Change UK - The Independent Group, the"I have always, in my political life, felt it's really critical that you try and take part in those fulcrum points in history," he tells Business Insider.
"The lie was that you could have your cake and eat it. The lie was that you could have frictionless trade without the obligations of membership," he says.He also believes the EU referendum in 2016 will lead to nothing less than"the collapse of the present party political system" in Britain, and worries about the space it is creating for figures like Nigel Farage to make a run on Downing Street in a future general election.
"After all this, I would not exclude the possibility that, sometime down the road, [Farage] will walk in through that black door, light up a fag and ask for a pint of Guinness," he says.His time as Poland's finance minister, from 2007 to 2013, saw him attend over dozens of meetings of ECOFIN, the EU's council of finance ministers.
"When the British really cared about something, they would just outplay [their counterparts]. It was unbelievable, it really was. That's why some people in Europe are annoyed [with Brexit]. Because Britain had the best deal of any country in the whole of the European Union. And Britain just turned around and said, no thanks."
Change UK faces an uphill battle in its bid for success in the European elections on May 23, should they go ahead.
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