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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
William Keegan

How can Labour fix Britain’s ‘economic failure’ without rejoining the EU?

Close-up of Keir Starmer in a white hard hat and an orange hi-vis jacket
Starmer: a passionate remainer, he was right about Brexit all along. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Now, let me get this straight. We have a fissiparous, Brexit-supporting government, many of whose MPs are stepping down, convinced that their party is heading for its wilderness years. Correspondingly, we have a Labour opposition that is riding high in the polls, led by Keir Starmer, who – unlike his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn – played a noble part in the remain campaign and argued passionately for a second referendum.

Proponents of a second referendum hoped that the country would acknowledge its historic mistake, and return to the European Union it should never have left. I was one of them. We failed.

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