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"Some form" is a tad vague but we'll definitely have a closer relationship in the coming years.

UK could rejoin the EU ‘in some form’, ex-Tory manifesto author says
The UK could rejoin the European Union “in some form” as a result of shifting geopolitical fault lines and changing attitudes among Brits, the author of the 2019 Tory manifesto has said.

Rachel Wolf, who co-wrote the Conservatives’ election blueprint four years ago, suggested that the major global upheavals in recent years could change the make-up of the EU as well as the UK’s relationship with the bloc.

It came as Labour peer Lord Mandelson suggested that an alternative trading relationship between the UK and the EU was the more likely outcome after the bitter Brexit years.

Speaking exclusively to i’s new podcast, Labour’s Plan for Power, Ms Wolf, who is co-founder of the political strategy firm Public First, also highlighted the heavily pro-Europe views of younger generations, which could affect the UK’s relationship with the Continent.

“Even since the 2019 election, we’ve had Covid, and we’ve had two major wars. We’re on the verge of, potentially, wars – or at least proxy wars – between China and the US. The whole kind of world order is rearranging itself,” Ms Wolf said.

“And I think in that context, you can imagine the EU itself completely changing what it means to be in the EU completely changing. And I think it’s perfectly possible that we would have to form a different kind of relationship or new relationship or go back in in some form, because I think we’re in an era of radical uncertainty and change.”

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...7cf4c28b&ei=14