Thread by @syrpis

Like many others, I struggled through Keir Starmer's essay/vision statement today (attached). A short thread on what he says - or rather doesn't say - about Brexit, and the UK's relationship with Europe, and the wider world, post-Brexit.

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In relation to Brexit, Starmer refers to it as 'botched', and he says that the govt 'failed to properly manage our departure from the EU'. He also bemoans the Brexit 'gridlock'. 2/7

He goes on to criticise the govt for having 'no plans for how to make Brexit work for Britain, nor how to build new relationships in Europe and beyond'. 3/7

Fair enough. He's right to make those points. But what, I wondered, would Labour do? What plans might it have? 4/7

Hidden away at the bottom of p.22, we are told that Labour 'would fix the holes in the shoddy Brexit deal'.

And, overly generous wordcount notwithstanding... that is all. 5/7

I don't think that amounts to a 'plan'.

Given the significance of Brexit and the need to give meaning to 'global Britain', it is desperately thin gruel. 6/7

For the rest, these assessments (from @davies_will, @rafaelbehr, @AyoCaesar and @carolinejmolloy) are worth a read. 7/7
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