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Rejoin, reset or go Swiss-style? How the UK could try to unpick Brexit
UK NewsPolitics•May 18, 2026 at 2:23 PMNational

Rejoin, reset or go Swiss-style? How the UK could try to unpick Brexit

By Lisa O’Carroll•The Guardian - UK News

Wes Streeting has suggested he wants to see the UK ‘back in the EU’ one day – but the bloc might take some convincingIs it too soon? Is it even doable? Few expected that, 10 years after the Brexit referendum and barely six years after its exit from the European Union, the UK would be talking about rejoining.Over the weekend, the former health secretary and posible Labour leadership contender Wes Streeting claimed Keir Starmer’s government needed “a new special relationship with the EU” and that one day the best answer was to be “back in the EU”. Continue reading...

Wes Streeting has suggested he wants to see the UK ‘back in the EU’ one day – but the bloc might take some convincing

Is it too soon? Is it even doable? Few expected that, 10 years after the Brexit referendum and barely six years after its exit from the European Union, the UK would be talking about rejoining.

Over the weekend, the former health secretary and posible Labour leadership contender Wes Streeting claimed Keir Starmer’s government needed “a new special relationship with the EU” and that one day the best answer was to be “back in the EU”.

Continue reading...