…all eyes are on the battle for Labour’s top job. Whoever gets it it’s a win-win for the Common Market. Streeting is openly calling for a return to the European Union. Burnham says nothing now that could play into Farage’s hands but only last year he told his supporters that “I want to rejoin the EU. I hope it happens in my lifetime…”. Whoever wins, a second referendum looks inevitable. Rejoining the EU is now back on the agenda, and the Remainers are winning the argument given the pathetic leaders of the Brexit camp these days.

The Tories had a golden opportunity after Brexit to build an independent British economy freed from the fetters of the European Union. Johnson, Truss and Sunak squandered it in pursuit of the impossible dream of a free trade agreement with the United States – that was never on the cards in Washington.

Lexit, the left case for leaving the European Union, never got off the ground. The public face of the Brexiteers is now that of Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the followers of Tommy Robinson that we see draped in Union Jacks at the anti-immigration rallies of the lunatic fringe.

But one only has to look at what’s happening in Europe today to see that rejoining the European Union will not solve the problems of working people. People need to make the case for staying out of the EU, trading freely with everyone throughout the world and building an independent economy needed to restore our public services in the 21st century.