Some Cabinet ministers have been privately pushing for Britain to rejoin the EU, The i Paper can reveal – as the party is engulfed in a fresh row over Brexit.
Fast forward 10 years since the Brexit referendum and it’s now the Labour Party that is in danger of becoming the latest victim of the Brexit wars – as the leadership crisis engulfing it appears to have reignited a debate that was quietly already rumbling within the Cabinet.
The i Paper can reveal that behind the scenes some Cabinet ministers have been privately lobbying for the party to take a bolder stance on forging closer ties with the EU, with some even going as far as wanting the party to rejoin in a bid to reunite the party’s centre-left voter coalition.
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It comes after Labour lost almost 1,500 seats in the local elections earlier this month, including a significant number of gains for the pro-European Green Party of England and Wales.
