When UK Labour Regains Power, Should It Reverse Brexit?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It was an error to leave but this does not mean that it would be a good idea to go back in. What would make sense is further alignment with the bloc; economically beneficial all around and would not cause political difficulties, at least not for a Labour government. The present state of affairs benefits precisely no one.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

When the UK was in the EU, it secured a huge range of opt-outs, while enjoying all the benefits of the single market, and actively resisted initiatives to further federalize the union.

It was a little more complicated than that: the Single Market was actually Mrs Thatcher's idea. And as that fact demonstrates, the big problem was always a fundamental lack of consistency.