What are Labour’s Brexit Plans?

Many of us think that Brexit is a done and dusted thing - but it seems that Starmer is keen to continue working on it. So, in this video, we're taking a look at what the Labour Party wants to do with the EU, and whether they are likely to achieve this.

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[MarkPTP]

'Brexit Plan' is now an oxymoron at this point

[abdaf]

Decades of debate and we're back to square one 😂

[SB-hmiw]

The short answer is no.

The nuanced answer is they will likely work on more alignment with the EU to facilitate trade, investment, and travel.

[burhanbudak]

The UK will never get their pre-Brexit deal they had with the predecessor of the EU.

[Haituga]

4:44 Give the editor a god damn raise :D

[SaintGerbilUK]

0:40 TLDR "we are going to evaluate exactly what Labour would do"
6:23 TLDR "in summary, dunno"
Slow news day?

[teotik]

It is not up to the parties of the UK if 'rejoining the EU' or 'reversing Brexit' would be possible.
What any party might do is applying for membership to the EU, nothing more.
Guess who is going to draw the shorter straw ....

[MacPhal]

I don't know why seeing the Minecraft icons made me giggle but they did. Great job editor!

[johndesmond]

Aren't you making an unjustified assumption that the EU actually wants the UK back on favourable terms?

[dcworld]

There's a Brexit plan? That's news to me

[philipwittamore]

I'm afraid that they have cooked their biscuit. The EU will not enter into piecemeal agreements with the UK. Switzerland has burnt EU fingers on doing that, and the UK compounded it. No more free lunches, you are either in or out and that will require the British population totally behind it.

[joaomarreiros]

Did anyone read the Leave Agreement and conditions to even candidate the UK to the EU now? Or even considered the willingness of the EU to accept said candidature? Guess not.

[Iazzaboyce]

Labour couldn't reverse a shopping trolly...

[surik_at]

As much as I'm all for a single Europe, this isn't the right time for the UK to rejoin even if the public was fully on board. Without getting rid of the Veto and reforming the core institutions, expanding can only hurt the EU, especially in the case of a volatile member that left the block less than a decade ago...

[maartenaalsmeer]

It's quite obvious but still bears repeating, it seems: *applying* for EU membership is indeed in the UK's hands The application to be *granted* however is in the hands of *all* EU member states, *individually* . The UK can *ask* to be allowed back in, if and when it meets the criteria which it currently doesn't by a long way. Brexit isn't a topic in the EU anymore: EU countries adapted to the situation and moved on. Some even benefitted business-wise from Brexit. The only country still *struggling to adapt* to Brexit is the UK itself. It's also the only country still *talking* about Brexit.

[jameslewis]

As much as I wish it were different, normalising UK/EU regulations are pretty much all we can really expect in the next government. To my mind the 'outright rejection' of the proposed 'youth mobility scheme' is a mistake but then again, so was Brexit. Unfortunately it seems that Starmer and the rest of the Labour leadership are living in fear of the Brexit supporting sections of the press. Personally, I would conclude that there would never be any hope for them to ever be on-side with a Labour campaign as a Labour government works directly against their own personal interests.

[chainzsawmaster]

I write this whilst sat on a vessel in the North Sea, working at a wind farm.

I have 6 days left I'm allowed to spend in the EU / Schengen area thanks to the UK now being classed as a "3rd nation", the same class as say Somalia, Congo, India etc.

Brexit has my work over beyond comprehension and I'm considering a move to Germany.

Getting a visa will be a nightmare. Wish me luck.

[Substantiate]

4:43 Love the Minecraft elements lmao, gave me a laugh. Editor deserves a raise!!

[Just_another_Euro_dude]

Western Balkans, Ukraine and Moldova should be a priority. Countries where 80% of the people support the EU membership. Not the UK. They got waaaay more natural resources than UK anyways.

[swangelok]

How can the UK be in a customs union with the EU when the trade agreement with Australia allows the UK to import hormoned beef?