Keir Starmer’s Labour is becoming increasingly bold when it comes to Brexit. With the referendum’s seventh anniversary on Friday, the shadow foreign secretary David Lammy today (20 June) reiterated the party’s promise to improve relations with the EU.
Since 2016, much has changed. Labour is well ahead in the polls – around 20 points. Economic growth is minimal, the cost-of-living crisis continues to bite and inflation remains high. Just last week, Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, put the blame for inflation squarely on Brexit. “There’s no joy in saying, well, ‘we told you so’ because people are having to live with that reality,” said Carney, who was put under pressure to resign from the governorship when he warned of the economic pain that the then prime minister Boris Johnson’s withdrawal deal would cause.
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