Our vision
The Rejoin EU Manifesto
What we stand for
Like most Britons today, the Rejoin EU Party seeks our return to full EU membership for better prosperity, enhanced security and increased personal freedoms. We believe re-joining the EU would improve life in the UK in a wide range of policy areas, from the economy and funding for the NHS and other vital public services, to the environment and migration control. We seek to repair the damage Brexit has inflicted on our economy, our social cohesion and our national reputation. We’ll also pursue constitutional improvements to put in place checks and balances that would stop such chaos happening again.
Who we are
Coming from many political backgrounds and united by the goal of reversing Brexit, our candidates have a greater degree of autonomy than their counterparts in other parties, enabling them to prioritise representing their particular constituents and addressing their specific local needs. Every vote for us will help us to pressure Labour and other parties in Parliament to support re-joining the EU as soon as possible, including re-integrating the UK into the EU’s economic structures, restoring free movement and increasing co-operation in other areas.
How we’ll do it – our policies
Rejoin EU proposes extensive UK constitutional reforms to prevent future governance crises, including replacing the current first-past-the-post electoral system in general elections with proportional representation, term membership of the House of Lords and stricter parliamentary conduct regulations.
The party calls for immediate dialogue with the European Commission on the potential conditions and timing of re-joining the EU, restoration of free movement as part of renewed single-market and customs-union membership, suspension of any further divergence from EU regulations, and immediate development of interim closer ties with Brussels including renewed participation in Erasmus+ and other European initiatives open to non-EU members.
Our economic and employment policies focus on re-joining the EU single market and customs union to boost the economy and funding for the NHS and other public services, helping small businesses and consumers by cutting Brexit red tape and trade barriers, and eventually joining the euro when economic circumstances permit it and make it advantageous. Re-joining would boost employment opportunities and staff availability by restoring mutual recognition of professional qualifications, thereby allowing Britons to seek jobs in the EU on the same terms as their continental European counterparts and vice versa.
Foreign policy objectives include restoring Britain’s influence in Europe and the wider world by giving it a seat at the table in EU foreign-policy decision-making. Re-joining the EU would also enable the UK’s renewed participation in EU representative delegations on other international bodies such as the UN and World Trade Organisation and give it a say in the EU’s approach to issues such as support for Ukraine in the war against Russia and policy on the Middle East.
Our defence, security and justice policies emphasise greater European military integration and shared access to EU intelligence and security databases to combat emerging threats. Re-joining the EU would allow the UK to participate once again in the European Arrest Warrant, a fast-track mechanism allowing EU member states to rapidly extradite criminals originating from other countries and repatriate those wanted for committing crimes at home. The UK would also regain full membership of Europol and access to systems and investigative co-operation arrangements which it lost when it left the EU.
On migration, we support the restoration of EU freedom of movement in the UK. In precise terms, FoM is a labour mobility – not migration – policy, since the overwhelming majority of European citizens coming here returned to their home countries after a period. Ending it has increased the number of people coming from outside Europe, many of whom do seek permanent settlement here, and has reduced the number of skilled European workers readily available to staff the NHS and other vital public services. Re-joining would also allow us to participate in EU border agency Frontex and arrangements such as the Dublin agreement, which allows for asylum seekers to have applications dealt with by the EU member state in which they arrived when they first entered the EU.
Our party will improve the NHS by re-joining the EU, which is likely to boost the UK’s GDP and tax revenue significantly, thereby increasing the funding available to ensure better treatment, shorter waiting lists, enhanced pandemic preparedness and more staffing via greater access to skilled EU workers. Restoring EU membership would allow the UK to participate once again in the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) scheme, allowing Britons to benefit from healthcare in EU member states on the same terms as the home nationals of those countries and vice versa. Renewed participation in the European Medicines Agency would also likely improve medicine availability by simplifying and speeding up approvals of new drugs.
On education, we will aim to get the UK back into the Erasmus+ student exchange scheme as soon as possible and restore European and foreign-language tuition as a core part of the UK curriculum. We also believe re-joining the EU would improve university funding, research and cross-border co-operation, as well as providing a general funding boost for the education sector as a whole as the economy recovers.
Our environmental policies focus on better co-ordination and co-operation via EU membership to tackle climate change, reduce pollution and ensure carbon-market alignment.
In transport and aviation, restoring EU membership would allow the UK to re-join the European Aviation Safety Agency, allowing for cross-border co-operation and joint decision-making on aviation safety matters and mutual recognition of aviation operating licences, thereby potentially reducing bureaucracy and costs for airlines and passengers. Re-joining the EU and restoring free movement would also cut queues at airports and ports by reducing or removing the need for border checks and enable the UK to participate in European-wide transport projects and networks.
In consumer affairs, EU membership would allow consumers to benefit once again from European legislation protecting consumer rights and providing benefits such as the EU’s ban on mobile-phone roaming charges. It’s also likely to remove Brexit-related taxes and extra costs on items sent between the EU and the UK.
Finally, Rejoin EU will seek a more democratic and integrated EU. We support significant EU reforms such as greater EU parliamentary powers, trans-national constituencies and stronger citizen participation. We strongly believe greater international co-operation, demonstrated through Britain’s renewed EU membership, is essential to address the significant global issues we face, from geopolitical instability to climate change.
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