Will Remoaners in Labour EVER accept Brexit?

Flanked by not one but two Union flags, labour leader Sir keir Starmer — once a passionate advocate of a second referendum on eU membership — pledged in his new Year keynote speech last week to try to ‘make Brexit work’.

It was an astounding U-turn, even by Captain Hindsight’s standards. But whether or not Starmer, who served as the Brexit minister under Jeremy Corbyn’s Remoaner junta, has finally accepted Britain’s decision, it seems not everyone in his party is reading from the same hymn sheet.

a statement last week by the allparty pressure group, the european Movement, pledged to launch a campaign to rejoin the eU.

‘We are committed to restoring this country’s place at the heart of europe. It will take time, but there is no excuse for delaying that process by a day longer than necessary,’ the statement read.

Chaired by lord adonis, head of policy during Tony Blair’s tenure in no. 10, the european Movement is awash with labour luvvies.

Its supporters include Baroness Quin, Blair’s europe minister, former labour MePs Mary Honeyball, dame Pauline Green and Richard Corbett, and Clare Moody, a former adviser to Gordon Brown.

The group describes itself on Twitter as ‘the largest pro-european organisation in the Uk’. ‘We will always be european!’ it says.

last week, lord adonis said: ‘This is not finished business as far as the public is concerned.’

Indeed, confident of this public mandate, the group advertises an online petition demanding ‘a real alternative to this failed Brexit’.

How many signatures does the campaign boast? Just over 1,600.

Starmer certainly has his work cut out dragging his party into the real (and democratic) world.