At the recent celebration of the life and achievements of my friend and fellow Remainer John le Carré, I was asked by a leading academic whether I was absolutely certain that we could rejoin the European Union.
The answer is that I am not. But as the evidence of the damage of that foolish referendum decision accrues, it is becoming more and more certain that we should try. At the very least, we should be repairing fences and attempting to re-establish as close a relationship as possible – a cause championed by Labour’s impressive shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves.
Of course there is an obvious danger that an application would be given short shrift by Europeans, whose patience with, and sympathy for, the UK must be close to exhaustion – not
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