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Rejoining the EU is the only way to stop Trump

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27.01.2026

This year marks 10 years since the UK voted to leave the European Union, with the intention to “take back control” of our borders, bureaucracy and laws. That divisive decision has, ever since, affected our politics, society and indeed place in the world.

But is it now, with a dwindling economy at home and ever-shifting world order abroad, time to reconsider this decision and rejoin the EU? Columnist Ian Dunt, former CEO of Vote Leave Matthew Elliott and Brussels Correspondent Leo Cendrowicz offer their perspectives.

Europe is our home and it’s time to return to it. No tiresome babble about customs union membership. No tortured compromises around single market membership. Only full European membership will do. That is the best deal available to the UK. It is the most sensible and patriotic course available to us.

There’s no point renegotiating Brexit. Brexit has failed. No one on God’s Earth is prepared to make the case that it has succeeded. All the passionate rhetoric of 2016 has disintegrated into horrible, pockmarked reality.

When Robert Jenrick hauled his political carcass into the Reform UK, he justified himself by reeling off a list of issues he thought Nigel Farage had been right about, including “mass migration” and “cheap........

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