THE OBSERVER: Pressure growing on Labour to improve trade with EU as Rachel Reeves admits Brexit damaged UK
Keir Starmer is under growing pressure to forge closer economic links with Europe five years on from Brexit, as a major new poll shows voters clearly favour prioritising more trade with the EU over the US.
The MRP survey of almost 15,000 people by YouGov for the Best for Britain thinktank shows more people in every constituency in England, Scotland and Wales back closer arrangements with the EU rather than more transatlantic trade with Washington. MRP polls use large data samples to estimate opinion at a local level
Even in Nigel Farage’s seat of Clacton, more people think the UK is better off trading more with its neighbours on the continent than with the US under the Reform UK leader’s ally Donald Tump. » | Toby Helm, Political editor | Saturday, January 25, 2025
This, of course, is music to my ears! The UK needs to get back as close to the EU as possible, and as quickly as possible. Fact is, we should have never left the European Union in the first place. But for that self-serving, avaricious clown, otherwise known as Nigel Farage, we wouldn’t have done. The UK needs to pull out all the stops to get ever closer with the EU asap, and eventually, hopefully, rejoin the European Union. – © Mark Alexander
