The Labour government needs a radical game-changing plan to turn round its dire polling – and re-joining the EU is the only way to do it, the Rejoin EU Party says.
The latest YouGov poll shows Labour languishing at 17% behind Nigel Farage’s Reform UK on 27%, with the Tories also on 17%, the Greens on 16% and the Lib Dems on 15%.
Keir Starmer and his colleagues have boxed themselves into a corner by refusing to re-join the single market, customs union and EU, leaving Chancellor Rachel Reeves facing a stark choice of tax rises, spending cuts or both to fill a reportedly bigger-than-expected £20bn hole in the public finances in next month’s Budget.
Labour also appears to be following Reform’s narrative on immigration when it’s increasingly clear that the best way the UK could handle migration is by being back in the EU and regaining access to mechanisms like the Dublin agreement, under which the first EU country an asylum seeker enters is typically responsible for processing their asylum application.
Leaving the EU has made the UK even more of a target for people smugglers who know the UK now lacks such arrangements for dealing with applications, the Rejoin EU Party says.
However, Labour could resolve many if not all its economic and political woes if it grasped the nettle and came up with a real alternative plan for getting the nation back on its economic feet – by accepting the UK needs to return to the EU.
Rejoin EU Party Chairman Brendan Donnelly said: “Re-joining would change the game for Labour – and it’s the only game in town. No amount of fiddling around the edges will fix it.
“Labour needs to embrace the EU wholeheartedly – or face electoral meltdown at the next general election.”
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