✅ France has now dropped its opposition to Britain being included in the EU’s “Made in Europe” industrial policy, provided the UK aligns with Europe on trade defence, including Chinese EV tariffs. This is the real post-Brexit world: the closer Britain aligns with Europe, the more access and protection British industry gets. Geography, supply chains and shared economic interests are reasserting themselves. Brexit tried to pretend Britain could detach itself from the European economic system. Reality keeps pulling us back towards it.

🤩 The Brexit debate is moving very fast now. Bernd Lange, @berndlange chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee and a veteran of the Brexit negotiations, says Britain could move quickly into a *Switzerland plus* relationship with the EU. In other words, the choice is not simply: Hard Brexit forever or wait years for full re-entry. There are routes back towards deep economic integration much faster than that. And once again, the message from Europe is not stay away. It is: if Britain wants to come closer, the door is open.

"Everything depends on being honest with the voters". We're grown-ups, we can take it. eastangliabylines.co.uk/news…

"PM is right to revisit Labour's red lines as current trading relationship is bad for business". theguardian.com/business/202…

🚨 The Brexit we voted for wasn’t delivered” rather proves the problem. Which Brexit? There was never one agreed model on the ballot, just “Leave”, onto which millions projected very different expectations. Ten years later, every failure can be explained away by saying the real Brexit was never tried. Meanwhile the EU hasn’t “crumbled”. Britain is still trying to renegotiate access to the market and political system we were told we no longer needed. At some point Brexit has to be judged by the Brexit that actually exists, not the imaginary one that can never fail.

"The Russian government has sought to influence democracy in the United Kingdom through disinformation, cyber hacking, and corruption." United States Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations, January 2018 framerusercontent.com/assets…

🚨 Goldman Sachs has put numbers on Brexit choices. Current Brexit deal: +0.3% GDP Customs union: +1% Single Market: up to +5% Full EU membership: up to +6% And Goldman estimates the UK economy is already around 6% smaller than its counterfactual path since the 2016 referendum. Non wonder the debate is changing. The further Britain moves back towards Europe, the larger the potential economic dividend. Brexit was sold as a growth strategy, but now 10 years later, the growth strategy is undoing Brexit asap.

‼️ Boston voted more than 75% Leave 🔥 the highest Leave vote in Britain. Ten years later, residents tell the i that jobs are still scarce, public services still struggle, immigration has not disappeared and life has not noticeably improved. One Leave voter says: “It’s made no difference, has it?” Another admits: “We’re a poorer country than we would have been if we’d stayed in.” That tells us something important. People in places like Boston weren’t wrong to be angry. They had been living with decades of economic decline, low wages and disappearing industry. But the EU wasn’t the cause of those failures and Brexit didn’t cure them. The real task now is bigger than simply rejoining Europe. We need to rebuild Britain at home while rebuilding our relationship with Europe abroad. That is how you finally address the grievances that produced Brexit in the first place.