Excellent piece by George Parker Peter Foster Andrew Bounds. I tell them the size of Starmer's majority will impact how creative and ambitious the EU will also likely be in deepening and investing in the relationship 🧑🏾

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Four things seem true:
- Brexit can never work as well as being in EU;
- Brexit can work better than now;
- every viable step to make Brexit work better involves moving closer to EU. Some mean following EU rules;
- so UK will in end seek to return to EU and get its votes back

The sight of republican French guards in London taking part in a ceremony centred on the protection of the British monarch is really quite something

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We need more European Strategic Autonomy. And fast

Can't believe that wasn't a penalty

Antony Gormley calls #Brexit 'the biggest act of self-harm this country has ever played on itself' ca.style.yahoo.com/antony-gormley…

I’ve never criticised anyone merely for appearing on GB News but equally I applaud this principled position. Nothing is to be gained by pretending that this shameless propaganda outlet has any resemblance to genuine journalism.

Withdrawing from the ECHR has consequences. Leaving aside the reputational damage, there will be issues in respect of our relations with the EU: under the Withdrawal Agreement in respect of the Windsor Framework on NI 1/3