Trade, security and defense will be the topics of the UK EU summit in May. The terrible trade transactions we already register with small economies such as Australia and New Zealand underscore the UK's weakened position outside the EU.
President Donald Trump's efforts to impose tariffs on other parts of the world helped further expose how vulnerable Brexit is. But by doing more business in that huge European market at our gateway, we still managed to offset the lost trade with the United States.
Parliamentary lawmakers debated whether they should rejoin the EU on March 24th. I mentioned it in a recent letter.
Confronting that debate, Parliamentarians gave good thrashing to the issues arising from the EU's departure. Naturally, lawmakers from the successor reforms of the Brexit Party did not dare to show up to protect Brexit.
However, other political parties may also be better represented. Some people probably found this topic uncomfortable, perhaps because the party's leadership ruled out re-joining in the near future.
There should be no such objection to Thursday's debate. Better trade relations with European partners are intended to be Labour's policy.
But former Labour leader Neil Kinnock Lord recently complained that he had reset his slow pace of “making your engross” European relations with the minister.
Thursday, April 24th, is the opportunity to tell backbench MP Keir Starmer and his government to stop limping in Europe. I hope local lawmakers can make the most of it.
Peter Brown, Cleckheaton
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