The sands may be shifting, as even right-wing conservative voices are now suggesting Keir Starmer should call for Britain to rejoin the European Union.
During an appearance on Newsnight on Wednesday evening, the Telegraph’s Poppy Coburn said it was a “complete no-brainer” for Labour to campaign on reversing Brexit.
Coburn made the point that red wall voters lost to Reform are long gone, effectively saying there’s nothing to lose by calling for the UK to rejoin the EU.
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She said this would “galvanise the centre left” who are moving towards the Greens and Liberal Democrats, and “radicalise progressive England.”
Whilst Coburn said still argued rejoining the EU would spark growth in the British economy, she said it made sense as a play for Labour “for purely political reasons.”
“You need to galvanise the left on one thing,” she continued. “Going back into the European Union would really upset Nigel Farage, you get to paint him as someone who’s already been tried and failed and you get to say this is going to deal with our growth problems – even though it won’t!”
Her view was echoed by The News Agents’ Lewis Goodall, who outlined the electoral benefits of Labour pursuing a closer relationship with the EU.
This comes just days after Coburn’s paper denounced Brexit as an “unmitigated economic disaster.”
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