Rejoin, reset or go Swiss-style? How the UK could try to unpick Brexit

Pro-EU campaigners protesting outside parliament in January 2024 to mark the fourth anniversary of the UK leaving the EU. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Is it too soon? Is it even doable? Few expected that, 10 years after the Brexit referendum and barely six years after its exit from the European Union, the UK would be talking about rejoining.

Over the weekend, the former health secretary and posible Labour leadership contender Wes Streeting claimed Keir Starmer’s government needed “a new special relationship with the EU” and that one day the best answer was to be “back in the EU”.