MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Once more we're in grave danger of being a rule taker, not a rule maker
Sir Keir Starmer can’t really hide his abiding love affair with the European Union. In 2019 Sir Keir, then Shadow Brexit Secretary, said ‘there are many in the Labour Party who feel we need to be very clear about a second referendum and about making the case for Remain. He may have pretended to accept Brexit to gain office, but his political record always made clear he did not really mean it Millions of British people may see the EU as interfering, as stealing our sovereignty and abolishing our borders. But the Blairite faction which Sir Keir keeps alive still sees Brussels as a shining city set upon a hill, an example of the sort of ‘progress’ they wish to bring to the UK. It is shocking and dismaying to learn a specially recruited battalion of more than 100 civil servants has been given the task of detailed negotiations with the EU No doubt the issue of ‘free movement’ – the reopening of borders to EU citizens – will also be raised.
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