Labour big beast Neil Kinnock has warned Keir Starmer he might struggle to meet a key election pledge without rejoining the EU’s Single Market.
The leader of the GMB union said the UK ‘needs a new settlement’ with the EU as Brexit was ‘hitting trade’.
The party would 'demand' closer ties with the EU if they were to support a minority Labour government.
Keir Starmer’s tedious, hardline rhetoric on Brexit actually reveals our path back to Europe.
In Nigel Farage’s old stamping-ground, voters turn to a party they once scorned.
The SNP would “undo Brexit as far as possible” if the party held the balance of power in a hung parliament after the next general election.
The party would seek to restore free movement and single market membership ahead of fully rejoining the EU.
New chair of the European Movement gives surprise backing to Labour’s cautious approach.
Brexit is ‘the elephant in the room of British politics’, Ed Davey says as he takes aim at Tories and Labour
19/03/2023
The Liberal Democrat leader accused the two main parties of avoiding confronting the economic impacts of Britain’s departure from the EU.
Stephen Flynn questioned the PM’s description of the Windsor Agreement as "special, exciting and attractive". / The SNP's Westminster leader asked why other parts of the UK were denied the same status.
Brexit is three years old and less popular than ever. More people are unhappy with Brexit outcomes to date, and pessimistic about the gains to come today than at any point in the Brexit process so far. “Rejoin” has opened up a double-digit lead over staying out in polls asking voters how they would choose in a second referendum on EU membership.
Labour is winning the Brexit revolution
30/01/2023
The party can capitalise on Tory failure.
Labour said the warning underlines the need for a ‘more productive’ relationship with Brussels following Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.
Keir Starmer may have solved Labour's Brexit conundrum | Andrew Marr | New Statesman [8 mins]
27/01/2023
Keir Starmer’s plans to bring the UK closer to the EU could solve Labour’s Brexit conundrum.
The shadow foreign secretary said the current UK-EU trade deal is damaging the British economy.
Shadow foreign secretary to mark out diplomatic mission of a future Labour government in landmark speech.
Lessons of Brexit: the Conservative Party
23/01/2023
Brexit is an existential threat to Conservatism. When it fails, the party will need to ask itself some searching questions.
ANAS Sarwar has admitted that Brexit has been a "disaster" for the UK economy - but said he won't back another referendum on rejoining the EU.
Economists at ING note that the Pound could thrive in the long term as the Labour party leader aims to rebuild good trade relationships with the bloc.
Several senior figures within the Labour Party have ripped into the impact of Brexit this week - and Keir Starmer has also had his say.
Sophie Stowers and Alan Wager look back on a year in Brexit, using the UK in a Changing Europe/Redfield and Wilton Strategies Brexit tracker poll to highlight five key trends in attitudes to Brexit in 2022.
Keith Brown challenged pro-Union parties at Holyrood to explain how they would reverse "the dismal downwards trend" caused by the UK leaving the EU.
‘I can see Britain being a member of the EU again’: How Brexit is returning to UK politics
26/12/2022
But the EU does not want to reopen debates about the terms of the Brexit deal: “Only in the UK are people still arguing about Brexit,” a source said. “No one in Europe thinks about it any more.”
The Brexit silence is breaking
01/12/2022
Professor Chris Grey’s analysis on how the budget aftermath exposed the costs and the lack of public consensus for Brexit. Some of the revived debate repeats the past, but there is a new context. How Labour responds now is crucial.