For Rachel Reeves, the precursor to her pivot towards the EU is disappointment with the performance of the economy. In her Mais lecture last month, the chancellor declared that the UK’s “fate is inescapably bound with that of Europe”. Yvette Cooper used her Mansion House speech to argue for a “closer relationship, not just on security and defence, but on better trade terms too”. Wes Streeting, perhaps with an eye on the overwhelmingly pro-EU party members who will elect Labour’s next leader, has crossed what was previously a “red line” by advocating the negotiation of a new customs union.
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