Starmer set to signal path to an even softer Brexit

They’re still trying to appease the right wing extremists

There are growing discussions at the highest levels of the Labour Party about whether a new ambition is needed, particularly in light of dire poll ratings, but Starmer will stick to his red lines: that the UK will not rejoin the single market or the customs union, or return to free movement of people under his Government.

Politicians, particularly those in Britain, Germany and the Netherlands are afraid of the popularity of right wing extremism. They think that somehow they can still get the growing extremist part of the population to vote for them if they snuggle up to them. But the right hates their guts, so that’s never going to work. And what’s more: the left and middle is also feeling increasingly estranged, which you can tell from the growing polling numbers of the greens.