THE EU that Britain is trying to get closer to is no longer the EU Britain left in 2016.

It’s concerned with its eastern borders, whether or not to enlarge with new members, raising vast new sums for defence, but also more generally with a drift to the right and what consequences that might have for the EU’s future.

Well, you might say, fair enough, but what’s any of that got to do with here?

We’re no longer in the EU apart, luckily, from its customs union and single market for goods, courtesy of the wingnuts in the Conservative party, Boris Johnson and our DUP dupes.

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So what difference does a drift to the right in the EU make?

More than you might think because, in its anxiety to find ways to improve its dire economic prospects, the British government will soon take up where Starmer left off in negotiations. That requires making concessions to Brussels.

Already Britain has scrapped a lot of the crazy plans to go it alone in food, chemical and industrial standards and has accepted the internationally recognised EU standard.

Britain is heading towards accepting ‘dynamic alignment’ with the EU in as many areas as possible.

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