NEWS · 02 October 2026
It is becoming clearer by the day that prime minister Andy Burnham is not just talking about rejoining the EU, but seriously exploring the possibility.
Senior Downing Street officials have been reaching out to thinktanks and pollsters to gather data on public support for the UK rejoining the EU.
We know what they will find: underlying public support is strong. But to boost it further, and make the public more sure that rejoining is right and possible, we urgently need rejoiners to be heard in this rapidly accelerating media debate.
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What about Farage?
Some rejoiners have held back their real views – pushing for 'closer relationships' or single-market-customs-unions – out of fear of the Brexiters.
Farage's anti-rejoin speech yesterday has spooked some of them again. But one crucial point in the polls is that, when tested, Labour pledging to rejoin does not significantly boost support for Farage's party.
Brexit, as a project, now has little support beyond a far-right rump. Farage himself attacks rejoining, but has long since disowned Brexit. Every other anti-EU party in Europe took one look at Brexit and abandoned the idea of leaving.
We do not need to be scared that rejoining would revive the broken forces of Brexit or boost Faragism.
Would they have us back?
It has been a long-standing dismissal of Rejoin to claim that the EU 'doesn't want us back'. But as an EU official statement said yesterday: "It is for the UK government to set out how it wishes to develop its relationship with the EU going forward. We remain open to engaging on the options it may put forward." They know well that the options will likely include rejoining.
French president Emmanuel Macron put it more simply: "Welcome back". And Pedro Sánchez says Spain would "welcome it with open arms".
There is so much here to build on. We hope you are as excited as we are. More very soon!
