MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Labour and a covert plot to sneak Britain back into the EU fold

Work have a dark history of post-election bombings that are not mentioned in any manifesto. They made frantic efforts to keep the plan to plunder private pensions secret, a devastating move that would have cost them many votes in 1997 if it had become public.

So it’s no surprise that Mr Keir StarmerHis party is secretly working on a reversal Brexitas revealed today in The Mail on Sunday.

The revelation comes courtesy of Fiona Urquhart, chair of Labor International, the group tasked with rallying British expat citizens to vote Labor in next month’s election.

Perhaps thinking no one in Britain would notice, she told a Mallorca newspaper that Labor now plans to restore free movement for Britons in the EU.

The EU will obviously not allow free movement for British citizens unless it gets free movement for EU citizens in return. This would leave a huge hole in the structure of Brexit.

Keir Starmer pictured with supporters at Worcester City FC in Worcester on May 29

It is entirely reasonable to suggest that this is evidence of plans for a covert, piecemeal unofficial return of Britain to the Brussels fold.

The revelation will damage Labour’s election chances, which is why the plan has never been publicly acknowledged. This is part of a pattern. Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer has a notable record of wildly flip-flopping and zigzagging on controversial policies, making it impossible to capture his real opinions.

He has publicly taken opposing positions on important issues.

In his days as a loyal lieutenant to Jeremy Corbyn (whom he has since ousted from the party), he once supported a second referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. But now he insists he is against it. He said in January 2020 that he was in favor of free movement, but spoke out against it in November 2022.

The late Tony Benn once said that there were two types of politicians: the guideposts, who stuck to their objectives and never changed, and the weathercocks who swayed with the prevailing wind.

Former Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair pictured in 1977

Sir Keir is more like a whirligig, whizzing back and forth so bewilderingly that he never stays in one place for long. In which case can the electorate trust his positive promises, that he will do some things, or his negative promises, that he will not do them?

The revelation about free movement is a warning that voters still have very little idea of ​​what they will actually get if they put Sir Keir in Downing Street.

A similar cloud hangs over the crucial issue of taxes. Someone will have to foot the bill for what will undoubtedly be a higher spending government than we have now.

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is not going to find the money she needs behind the cushions of her sofa, or from VAT on private schools.

It’s time for some real old-fashioned roughhousing in this campaign, pursuing these and other issues publicly until we get to the truth.