Rachel Reeves has argued that the United Kingdom’s future should ultimately be inside the European Union, in her first major intervention since leaving the Treasury.
Reeves said Brexit had left the UK “poorer, weaker and less secure”. Her remarks amount to a direct criticism of the consequences of the country’s departure from the EU and set out her view that closer integration should be the long-term direction for Britain.
The comments were made after Reeves’s time at the Treasury. No further details of the circumstances surrounding her departure from the role, or of any proposed timetable for the UK to rejoin the EU, were provided in the supplied material.
Her intervention places the economic, security and political consequences of Brexit at the centre of her assessment of the UK’s future. She did not provide further detail in the supplied material on how closer relations with the EU should be pursued or what steps would be required to return the UK to membership.
