Labour Movement for Europe

"An unparalled act of economic self-harm."

Watch @gareththomasmp.bsky.social on:

📉 Brexit's damage to tax revenues, jobs, and family finances

🤝 why the 2026 UK-EU summit should aim for "a more profound reset"

💼 practical steps to cut Boris's Brexit red tape on trade

Starmer: Brexit ‘significantly’ hurt British economy U.K. needs to “keep moving” towards a closer relationship, says British PM.

“We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU.”

Keir Starmer on the economic impacts of Brexit.

Read more in Politico below:

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There are those on the left and right who offer only grievance: Labour is getting on with the job of economic renewal | Keir Starmer Judge last week’s budget in the light of our bold plans to sweep away red tape, tackle inactivity among young people and pursue a closer trading relationship with the EU, says prime minister Keir Star...

“If we can get cheaper food, boost growth and create jobs by having a closer relationship with the EU, we should.” - PM Keir Starmer

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Join the Labour Movement for Europe today to help us continue rebuilding our relationship with the EU.

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“The swiftest way to achieve growth is for the government to be even more ambitious in negotiating with the European Union.”

Watch as Ben Coleman MP asks the Prime Minister about his plans for cutting the red tape holding British businesses back.

Nigel Farage 'risks trade war' with Brussels over major benefit cut plans Reform leader Nigel Farage says he would end Universal Credit payments for EU citizens - leading to warnings it would spark a trade war with Brussels and push up prices

Those Reform plans in full:
- Torpedo our largest trading relationship
- ⁠Leave millions of EU citizens in limbo
- ⁠Sell out Brits living abroad
- ⁠Spend years negotiating another Brexit mess

Thanks Nigel 👍

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Join us

Join @labour4europe.bsky.social before Thursday for our seminar on Brexit and the budget - a Stanford study shows it's hit our productivity, our growth, employment and investment. We will chew over with Rachel Blake and Will Hutton what Labour can do next. www.labourmovementforeurope.uk/join

"Brexit and the Budget: What should Labour do?"

Join us this Thursday evening for a members' discussion event with Will Hutton, @rachelblakemp.bsky.social and @stellacreasy.bsky.social.

Not an LME member? Join today to take part: www.labourmovementforeurope.uk/join

🚨📉 Major new paper by Stanford professor Nick Bloom and coauthors.

They find Brexit has:

⬇️ Reduced UK GDP by 6-8%

⬇️ Reduced investment by 12-18%

⬇️ Reduced employment by 3-4%

⬇️ Reduced productivity by 3-4%

The fundamental purpose of the ECHR is to protect people from governments of all colours.

- @stellacreasy.bsky.social

"This is something Britain was involved in at the start - it is not a foreign imposition.

It plays an important role in the life of the British people."

FCDO Minister Stephen Doughty on why the UK will not be leaving the ECHR, at today's debate secured by @cateccles.bsky.social

"The Reform and Tory policy of ECHR withdrawal is simply, I'm afraid, Brexit 2.0 and isolationism."

@tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social on why we need the ECHR to manage our borders.

British businesses need help now with the mess Brexit has created - Here’s one clear way we can help cut paperwork, save jobs and rebuild our trading relationship with our neighbours now so they have a future at all. Join us in the @labour4europe.bsky.social to actually make a difference on Europe.

"The long-term impact of Tory austerity, their botched Brexit deal and the pandemic on Britain's productivity is worse than even we feared.”

–Keir Starmer

Join the Labour Movement for Europe to fight for our future with Europe.

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Join the Labour Movement for Europe to help us make sure we don't make the same mistake of Brexit again

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"The real danger to border control and public security here, is leaving the ECHR."

–George Peretz KC, Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, speaking at our conference rally.

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"The reason why the reactionary right hate the ECHR is because it gives ordinary citizens the right against the secretive and authoritarian state that they want."

–George Peretz KC, Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, speaking at our conference rally.

@georgeperetzkc.bsky.social

The reason why the ECHR matters in under two minutes from the society of labour lawyers …

Too many want to do Britain down – Labour will defy the doomsayers and beat the forecasts | Rachel Reeves I don’t pretend the choices will be easy, but my budget has one focus: to invest in building a better future for everyone, says UK chancellor Rachel Reeves

“Austerity, a chaotic Brexit and the pandemic have left deep scars on the British economy that are still being felt today.”

Read more from Rachel Reeves here:

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Tomorrow Nigel Farage is proposing a bill to take the UK out of the ECHR. Not content with messing up our future with Brexit, he’s at it again.

Don’t let him get away with it. Ask your MP to join us in @labour4europe.bsky.social saying not this time Nigel.

There’s a small window of opportunity in the coming months to go further and faster fixing our relationship with our European counterparts that Farage and co broke - so if you recognise that matters too then it’s time to join us in @labour4europe.bsky.social ! www.labourmovementforeurope.uk/join

"In Spanish, the word compromiso means both compromise and commitment. We need a commitment to compromise."

–Sir Chris Bryant MP, Minister of State for Trade Policy, speaking at out conference rally.

"The reason why the reactionary right hate the ECHR is because it gives ordinary citizens the right against the secretive and authoritarian state that they want."

–George Peretz KC, Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, speaking at our conference rally.

@georgeperetzkc.bsky.social

'We chose to break that cycle, not with shouting slogans from the sidelines, but with solutions."

–Nick Thomas-Symonds, Minister for EU Relations, speaking at our conference rally.

"The real danger to border control and public security here, is leaving the ECHR."

–George Peretz KC, Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, speaking at our conference rally.

@georgeperetzkc.bsky.social @soclablaw.bsky.social

"We've been really harmed by Brexit as an industry."

–Naomi Pohl, General Secretary of the Musicians' Union, speaking at our conference rally.

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“We are already now a target of hybrid aggression.”

—Thomas Vaupel, Deputy General Secretary of the Party of European Socialists, speaking at our conference rally.

@pes.eu

🚨 Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP to @samcoatessky.bsky.social:

“There is no doubting that the impact of Brexit is severe and long-lasting”

"The European Union, at its core, is the most fundamental peace and security pact."

– Calvin Bailey MP, Member of the Defence Select Committee, speaking at our conference rally.

“Nigel Farage has been surprisingly quiet about the trade relationship we now have with Europe.”

–Yuan Yang MP (@yuanfenyang.bsky.social), Member of the Treasury Select Committee, speaking at our conference rally.