Labour’s dream of rejoining the European Union may be an ambition to warm the heart of Emmanuel Macron but it hasn’t gone down well with Marine Le Pen’s National Rally.

She is known for her Euroscepticism, and one of her MEPs has suggested the party may block any attempt by Britain to reverse Brexit. ‘To do so without a referendum would obviously be a denial of democracy because the people expressed their will through a referendum to leave,’ said Charles-Henri Gallois.

Neither Le Pen nor Melenchon champions Frexit but they understand the disdain the majority of French people have for the EU

Neither Le Pen nor Melenchon champions Frexit but they understand the disdain the majority of French people have for the EU

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Gallois, who is the economic adviser to Jordan Bardella, the president of the National Rally, said: ‘Yes, we would oppose it without a referendum, I think, because in any case we’re against any enlargement of the EU anyway… given that there was a referendum to leave, that we can’t accept a country rejoining without a referendum.’

Referendums and the EU remain a sore........

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