January 1, 2026
News release
Chairman’s New Year message: UK set to move closer to re-joining EU in 2026
Happy New Year. As we enter 2026, polls show the tide of public opinion moving in favour of re-joining the EU and its major constituent economic structures, such as the customs union and single market.
YouGov polling for The Times reportedly found that around 70% of people who voted Labour, Lib Dem or Green at the last election thought a future Labour leader should open talks on re-joining the EU.
Even among Conservative voters, 25% of those questioned said a new leader should start negotiations on re-joining and 40% favoured re-joining the EU’s customs union.
As such, the UK now needs to develop a plan to respond to this clear shift in the public mood and the Rejoin EU Party is taking the lead in that.
We’re planning a major electoral campaign in May’s local elections and our overall party strategy targets a rapid return to EU membership, starting with the immediate suspension of any further UK moves away from EU laws and swift re-entry to any relevant, beneficial EU programmes and initiatives that don’t require EU membership.
We would also start negotiations with Brussels about re-joining the customs union and single market ASAP and open talks about the potential terms and timing of re-joining the EU as a whole.
Chairman Brendan Donnelly said: “The political dam protecting Brexit has well and truly burst. Every day, new voices emerge calling for Brexit to be amended or reversed.
“I’m confident support for the Rejoin EU Party and its central cause of re-joining the EU will increase in 2026.
“Trump and Putin make British re-entry into the EU more pressing and urgent than ever.”
You can find out more about our plan to re-join and how you can help us here.
You can also follow us on Twitter at @rejoinp and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RejoinEUParty
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.