In the last quarter, we can see the sands shifting on the government’s policy towards the EU.
The March 2026 Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report on the so-called “reset” is quietly scathing about its inadequacies.
The EU has however been opening doors for expanding the “reset”.
The journalist Rafael Behr concludes from a review of the “reset” so far that only full rejoining-the-EU works.
The Fabians have produced a document called “Pressing Reset”: the articles by Stella Creasy and Liam Byrne are particularly interesting.
Labour Left Internationalists is for a push to rejoin the EU, with rejoining the Single Market and the Customs Union as clear and more immediate next steps.
