Labour’s EU policy will do little to address economic impact of Brexit, says thinktank

Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, said Labour would ‘look to improve our trading relationship with Europe’. Photograph: Lucy North/PA

Labour’s EU policy amounts to “tinkering around the edges of the current relationship” and will do little to “address the continuing economic impacts of Brexit”, a report has concluded.

An audit of UK-EU relations by the thinktank UK in a Changing Europe concluded that Labour had ruled out changes that would have made the biggest impact on economic growth.