Summary
Keir Starmer faces growing pressure from Labour’s key financial backers, trade unions, and business leaders to forge closer UK-EU ties after Trump’s new tariffs sparked economic concerns.
The U.S. imposed a 10% tariff on the UK and 25% on key sectors, endangering 25,000 UK car jobs.
A TUC poll shows 66% of Britons now support stronger EU ties. Labour MPs and pro-EU groups argue Starmer’s Brexit red lines are outdated.
Critics warn ignoring EU alignment risks deeper economic damage.
I don’t see them coming back if they can’t keep the Pound
Tbf we almost certainly can, just play the Swedish game of perpetually slightly not complying with euro requirements.
There are ways to be part of the Single Market and all that goes with it without becoming an EU member, for example by becoming a member of the EEA like Norway.
They would be able to keep the Pound that way, as well as a number of other things such as controlling the fishing rights in their own waters.
They would however have to accept Freedom Of Movement, which was one of the main arguments for Leave during a Referendum which was very much a mix of racism and fantastical expectations of keeping most of the rights even after leaving the EU (Britain has major problems with widespread nationalistic delusions of grandeurs, so lots of people believed all the fantasies about “they will give us all we want”)