Britain’s financial secretary to the treasury, part of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government, called reversing Brexit “absolutely” in the UK’s “national economic interest” in a speech to the parliamentary upper chamber, the unelected House of Lords.
Lord Spencer Livermore, former chief strategist to the hapless Chancellor of the Exchequer and PM Gordon Brown, praised the government’s “reset” efforts with Brussels in a speech to the Lords.
Should we in due course reenter the European Union, well of course, my personal view is that that is an inevitability,
Of course the UK will at one point reenter the European Union.
Livermore joins a growing number of Labour figures advocating overturning the largest democratic mandate in British history which led to Britain’s departure from the EU with, to date, leadership candidate Wes Streeting one of the most prominent.
More broadly, Brexiteers see Starmer speaking with a forked tongue on Brexit: appearing to respect the referendum result while seeking to ‘unpick’ the detail in the name of a ‘reset’ with Brussels.
