A former British Conservative minister has sparked controversy after he argued the UK should “upgrade Brexit” by rejoining the European Union’s single market.
Writing in The House magazine on Wednesday, Tobias Ellwood, the Tory MP for Bournemouth East, argued that his proposed Brexit “course corrections” would ease the cost of living crisis and make the political impasse in Northern Ireland go away.
Pointing to the UK’s export shrinkage to the E.U., Ellwood said it would be a “dereliction of duty” not to access how well Brexit has worked “given the gargantuan economic challenges ahead.”
Citing a recent YouGov poll that suggested that nearly half of the people (49 percent) thought Brexit had gone badly and only 17 percent considered it successful, he argued that there’s now an appetite for change….