By Anand Menon, Joël Reland and Jannike Wachowiak

Brexit is back in the news.

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It’s all kicked off after Wes Streeting casually remarked that Britain’s future lies “one day back in the European Union”. But pity the EU. They again get to watch us talk to ourselves about the future relationship with little or no attention to what Brussels, or the member states, might be willing to give us.

On the rejoin question specifically, the EU would likely be open to a UK application, but with some caveats. Partly, this is because they are bound by their own treaty to consider applications for democratic European states. Added to which there is the political incentive that there could be no clearer admission of the failure of Brexit than an application to rejoin.

Across member states, populist parties are........

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