The next meeting of our Discussion Group will be held online, on Saturday 10 October, starting at 10:30am. Below is a summary of potential discussion points:

At last a political leader who has the courage to say loud and clear that Brexit was and is a disaster. But what will this actually mean? Burnham said in advance of his Conference speech that the government will be staying with the Labour Party manifesto ‘red lines’ until a new election. At the November reset meeting he will be putting forward options for a closer relationship with the EU - one of which would be the status quo! We have seen warm words from France and Spain, but what of the rest of the twenty-seven? And could one of these options include the yet-to-be-defined ‘associate membership’ put forward by Van der Leyen for Canada? The Polls and the Press speak of the public’s increasing acceptance of a return to the EU, but of course any moves in that direction would mean some costs to the UK and we have seen in the government’s attempts on welfare reforms how reluctant the public is to accept any such perceived requirement even as a change for the better.

Come and join us for a discussion on how much trust we can put in a new, more positive, government move towards regaining our place in Europe generally and the EU in particular.

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