
"We want to avoid using the words Brexit or re-join,” says Mike Galsworthy, an idealist who’s smart enough to acknowledge his own idealism.
Achieving even half his objectives would be victory for the European Movement UK, almost the last pro-EU organisation standing after the recriminations of the Remain campaign’s internal strife. As its chairman, Galsworthy’s mission is to build back support for a closer relationship with the EU step by step. The biggest challenge of all may be persuading the public to even consider these issues again, so traumatic was the before, during and after of Brexit.