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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Brexit may be back, but Britain needs to know what it wants

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gestures with both arms outstretched in an ornate room with Union Jack flags
Keir Starmer wants closer ties to the EU but soon it might not be his opinion that matters. Photograph: Jaimi Joy/PA

Brexit’s back. Well, sort of. If it ever really went away. At any rate, an awful lot of ink has been spilled – in Britain, at least – over last weekend’s remarks by a would-be PM that Brexit was “a catastrophic mistake” and the UK’s future lay “back in the EU”.

That reflects, first, just how deep the wounds of Brexit still run. A decade after the referendum unleashed an identity politics so powerful it still dominates UK debate, Britain’s voters remain divided into the two warring tribes of remain versus leave.

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