🗣 'He sounds worried and desperate. He and his dwindling band of Brexit devotees should be.'
Bernard Ingham’s column was presumably aimed at your ‘Brextreme’ correspondents. But it’s actually those of us who he reckons suffer from “Europhilia” who will draw the most encouragement from it.
Sir Bernard is confused - falling back on old tropes and excuses for Brexit’s failure. He sounds worried and desperate. He and his dwindling band of Brexit devotees should be.Figures from YouGov published this week confirm a now well-established pattern, with 70 per cent saying that Brexit has been handled badly and 53 per cent saying that we were wrong to leave the European Union .
Asked if they support a “closer deal” with the EU – including the removal of trade barriers, aligning regulations and bringing back freedom of movement – 54 per cent say ‘yes’ .I disagree vehemently with what Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer says about “making Brexit work”. But I take encouragement from how his party’s poll numbers provide an example of how quickly political fortunes can shift. After 2019’s crushing General Election defeat it was widely suggested that Labour would be out of power for many years to come. But YouGov now says that Sir Keir’s party is beating Rishi Sunak’s Tories 48 per cent to 25 per cent and is, thus, widely expected to be back in power within the next couple of years.
Sir Bernard has questions. So do we. Which is why Leeds for Europe has published a petition on the UK Parliament website – petition.parliament.uk. It’s headed “We call upon the Government to hold a Public Inquiry into the impact of Brexit”.At the time of writing, it’s almost two-thirds of the way to the 100,000 signatures needed to be considered for a parliamentary debate. A Government response was guaranteed at 10,000 signatures.
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