October 29, 2025
News release
Labour needs game-changing plan to re-join EU to transform dire polling, Rejoin EU Party says
The Labour government needs a radical game-changing plan to turn round its dire polling – and re-joining the EU is the only way to do it, the Rejoin EU Party says.
The latest YouGov poll shows Labour languishing at 17% behind Nigel Farage’s Reform UK on 27%, with the Tories also on 17%, the Greens on 16% and the Lib Dems on 15%.
Keir Starmer and his colleagues have boxed themselves into a corner by refusing to re-join the single market, customs union and EU, leaving Chancellor Rachel Reeves facing a stark choice of tax rises, spending cuts or both to fill a reportedly bigger-than-expected £20bn hole in the public finances in next month’s Budget.
Labour also appears to be following Reform’s narrative on immigration when it’s increasingly clear that the best way the UK could handle migration is by being back in the EU and regaining access to return mechanisms like the Dublin agreement, under which the first EU country an asylum seeker enters is typically responsible for processing their asylum application.
Leaving the EU has made the UK even more of a target for people smugglers who know the UK now lacks such arrangements for dealing with applications, the Rejoin EU Party says.
As Labour’s economic and political woes are largely self-inflicted, it could resolve many if not all of them if it grasped the nettle and produced a real alternative plan for getting the nation back on its economic feet – by accepting the UK needs to return to the EU.
Rejoin EU Party Chairman and former MEP Brendan Donnelly said: “Re-joining would change the game for Labour – and it’s the only game in town. No amount of fiddling around the edges will fix it.
“Labour needs to embrace the EU wholeheartedly – or face electoral meltdown at the next general election.”
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Please also see Brendan’s recent video here
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The Rejoin EU Party is campaigning to re-join the EU because we believe re-joining is the only way to solve the multiple problems Brexit has created. Brexit is broken and it’s breaking our country too. All the promises on which Brexit was sold to the electorate in 2016 were nonsense. Far from reducing red tape and providing £350m a week for the NHS, Brexit makes trading with the crucial European market more complex, difficult and expensive and threatens to reduce funding for public services. If you agree Brexit is making our country poorer, less tolerant and less united, join us and send a message to Westminster that you want your EU membership back, with all its freedoms and benefits.