When I left home, my parents were sad to see me go. But they understood the world — or at least a damp flat in Bethnal Green situated above a pie and mash shop — awaited. Ten years on, when I joked about moving back, my mum deadpanned: “We’d love to have you. But for no more than a week.”I recalled this rather hurtful memory yesterday when Keir Starmer restated Labour policy: that there is “no case for rejoining” the European Union.
For the dismayed, consider this thought experiment in which I grant you two wishes. First, a government prepared to offer such a referendum, and second, a poll lead for rejoin. My friends, I’d now like to introduce you to Article 49 of the Treaty on European Union.
