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10. I'm not suggesting that anyone from Labour has
Wed Jul 3, 2024, 02:29 PM
Jul 2024

spoken about moving back towards the EU, apart from Starmer's view on alignment

https://www.politico.eu/article/labours-plans-to-ease-post-brexit-trade-likely-to-require-accepting-eu-rules/

I AM saying that they are likely to be left with little choice because of the economic situation that they will continue to find themselves in.

I am also saying that I don't expect much if anything in that change to occur before at least the first half of the next parliament, maybe even by the start of the following parliament.

Finally if there is a point at which the UK makes an application to rejoin, it will likely be in as much as a couple of decades time. What might preclude any rejoining is the mandatory joining the Euro and Schengen.

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