If you think rejoining EU would be easy, think again

WHEN I left home, my parents were sad to see me go. But they understood the world — or at least a damp flat in Bethnal Green situated above a pie and mash shop — awaited.

- Jack Kessler

WHEN I left home, my parents were sad to see me go. But they understood the world — or at least a damp flat in Bethnal Green situated above a pie and mash shop — awaited. Ten years on, when I joked about moving back, my mum deadpanned: “We’d love to have you. But for no more than a week.”

I recalled this rather hurtful memory yesterday when Keir Starmer restated Labour policy: that there is “no case for rejoining” the European Union.