Welcome to another episode of The Restisted Politics Question Time with me, Anastakambal,

and me Rory Stewart.

And Rory, I think the single biggest issue that was raised this week was the B-word Brexit.

In two parts, one, the effects of Brexit, but also a lot of questions about Labour's

position. Nick Simpson, Starmer seems to be really doubling down on being against free

movement. Single market does he really believe this, why is he position hardened? Is

this good politics or is he going too far? Richie G, given the raft of evidence emerging

about the negative effects of Brexit, when do you think public discourse may move on

to the potential for another referendum? Honestly, we had loads of these in Adel, first

of Australia, now Japan, both mirages of trade deals. It just goes on and on and on.

And it's all, you know, I do really think, Rory, the public are ahead of the politicians

on this, I really do. Well, there's definitely a big shift going

on, isn't that? I mean, we can now see a more consistent picture in the opinion polls

of people beginning to say that Brexit is a mistake, which wasn't true in the early

days. I mean, I think the remain campaigners kept hoping in the early days that they could

show dramatic examples of people who voted Brexit who changed their mind, but more and

more of those examples now emerging. And of course, as we face two types of crisis, one

of them an economic crisis and the other, the security crisis from Russia, Ukraine, there

will be more and more pressure to say that Europe represents the region we have most

in common with, economically, in terms of our values, in terms of our security interests.

And when you're trying to solve for the two big things, the breakdown of the global

border and the collapse of British economy, the European Union seems like a much stronger

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