He must be true to what are surely still his instincts
A government committed to economic growth as its first and overriding priority can hardly ignore what Alastair Campbell calls “the elephant in the room” is a refreshingly human politician with blood in her veins, she might have been expected to have committed a gaffe or two in this election. In fact, the closest she has so far come to making news was because she was too disciplined.
The Tories keep off it because it has so patently not been the stunning success confidently predicted during the 2016 referendum. But this really isn’t about the past. The Brexit ship has sailed. Rather, it’s about the future. Labour’s manifesto, even if strictly speaking it covers only the lifetime of the next parliament, has ruled out not only rejoining but re-entry to a customs union or the single market.
David Lammy has suggested deeper defence co-operation with EU states, where Britain has something positive to bring to the party. This is an important step. But there’s something else, an idea canvassed by the European Commission itself: an EU-UK Youth Mobility Scheme for young people between 18 and 30. As Cambridge European law professor Catherine Barnard argues, they are the group most affected by loss of opportunities caused by Brexit.
As even some of Labour’s most ardent pro-Europeans acknowledge, reversing the economic damage inflicted by Brexit won’t be easy even in a second Labour term, if there is one. The seemingly seductive middle way of entering the single market has its downsides.
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