{"id":814701,"date":"2026-10-26T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814701\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:40:10","slug":"a-referendum-is-not-needed-for-the-uk-to-reach-a-bre-entry-deal-with-europe-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814701\/","title":{"rendered":"A referendum is not needed for the UK to reach a Bre-entry deal with Europe | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all due respect to Polly Toynbee, why do we assume that we would need another referendum to return to Europe (Shall we have another EU referendum? Maybe \u2013 but not yet, 19 October<\/a>)? The last one didn\u2019t work out too well. Asking the electorate to vote a simple yes or no on such a complex and multifaceted deal was never going to be the right approach; nor will it be to go back in.<\/p>\n

Call it what you will \u2013 Brejoin, Bre-entry, Brehabilitation \u2013 it shouldn\u2019t be an all-or-nothing deal. The one thing that Brexit<\/a> has given us is the opportunity to cherrypick the elements of a relationship that are of mutual benefit to both parties. How about approaching it on a piecemeal basis, processing it through normal parliamentary procedure? No buses required.
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Gary Jones
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Wimbledon, London<\/p>\n

Polly Toynbee says support for rejoining the EU \u201cgrows by the year, partly as older people drop off their perches\u201d. I am still on my perch, but I want us to to rejoin the EU before I fall from it. Why a referendum? Let us just have a detailed manifesto from a trusted prime minister.
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Michelle Ellison
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Stourbridge, West Midlands<\/p>\n

Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email<\/a> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With all due respect to Polly Toynbee, why do we assume that we would need another referendum to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}