Labour should lead campaign to rejoin Single Market – Yorkshire Post Letters

I THANK The Yorkshire Post for the stimulating views expressed in recent letters from Debra Stretton and Richard Wilson, concerning the right policy for Labour to adopt on the European Union.

As a Labour supporter and committed opponent of Brexit, 
I feel campaigning to rejoin the EU is certainly the right thing 
to address the horrific self-
harm that has already been done by the populist nonsense of leaving.

That is probably where my contemporary fellow Leeds University graduate, Sir Keir Starmer, is too.

Yet such a policy would almost certainly wreck any chance of a swift return to government for his party.

On balance, campaigning to re-enter the Single Market is the expedient way ahead.

The right thing is often elusive in politics – witness 
the dilemmas that faced Republican senators at the Donald Trump impeachment trial.

The wrong thing is much clearer, Labour must not 
accept the fallacies and duplicities heaped upon us 
by Brexiteers, and in contrast to those US senators who let 
the heinous actions of the 
former president go 
unpunished.

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