It took almost two years in office for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government to find its voice on the most divisive issue in postwar British politics.
With the economy flatlining, the Iran war threatening an energy price shock and Donald Trump proving an ever more unreliable ally, it was to Brussels, not Washington, that the UK prime minister turned when he delivered an address to the nation this month.
“Brexit did deep damage to our economy,” Starmer said, echoing what has long been the consensus view of economists. He promised that Britain would be “more ambitious” in deepening ties with the EU, arguing that the benefits of doing so were now “simply too big to ignore”.
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