Thread: Britain outside the EU
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Old 28-02-2023, 12:42   #4887
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by ianch99 View Post
It will be interesting in how the ERG Brexit loons react to this. If they are effectively silenced, it will be the start of a silent re-convergence back to EU alignment to help mitigate some of the damage to business.
I wouldn't place Johnson in that category, but I think that it has certainly made him less relevant and stymied any comeback plans he might once have had.

I also think the ERG's importance is now blunted. The Conservative Party will likely now try and focus its efforts on tying to get economic growth and less on competing with UKIP on Brexit purity. Greater economic growth will mean closer ties to Europe and it's a trade-off that now seems to be acknowledged. The days of hoping for free trade deals with China, India and the USA to rescue the economy are gone.
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