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I think your blog only betrays your own biases.

I've seen no evidence KS has "ruled-out" re-joining the EU. He only talks about the EU in the present and not in the future tense. Quite clever on his part, I'd say.

Similarly, "brought some benefits" above should be in the future conditional tense, if rendered accurately from KS radio answer.

Membership of the euro (and e.g. Schengen) would be matters for negotiation as Article 49 TEU makes clear.

And excluding any new member states from pre-exiting existing common debt would take a Commission lawyer about 10 minutes when drafting accession treaty. Thus also a red herring.

Labour says it "will" (not "might") renegotiate the TCA "to fill in the gaps". (cf Reeves FT last July).

And I'm puzzled why you are silent on the N/Ireland situation?

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