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Ten years after the Brexit vote, British politicians are reviving the question of rejoining the EU. Sweden is keeping its fingers crossed. “We miss the British,” says Trade Minister Benjamin Dousa I(M).
The Sweden Herald reports that Britain’s exit from the EU was gruelling and protracted, and ultimately a complete disaster for the country’s then-leaders in the Conservative Party, the Tories.
That the issue is still just as hot is shown by the uproar in recent days after the recently resigned health minister, Wes Streeting, said he would campaign to rejoin the EU.
Streeting wants to take over as both prime minister and party leader of the social-democratic Labour Party instead of the hard-pressed Keir Starmer and is apparently hoping for support from EU friends.
Public opinion gives him some support. In an April poll for the Guardian newspaper, 53 per cent of respondents wanted to rejoin the EU, including 80 per cent of Labour voters.
However, the mere thought of a “brejoin” arouses horror among many in the party.
Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, who has long been seen as the frontrunner to replace Starmer, has immediately made it clear that he does not support rejoining the EU.
EU opposition is still strong in the rural areas and in old mi nig and industrial towns – for example, in the very constituency that Burnham must win in June to take a seat in Parliament and thus be able to challenge Starmer.
