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forward slash innovator. Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shorts,

Spectators daily politics podcast. I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by James Hill and Fraser Nelson.

So today is the seven year anniversary of the Brexit referendum and there's a new poll out

marking that from the Tony Blair Institute. The headline of it is that four and five Britain's

support a closer relationship with the EU over the medium term, just around 43%

favour rejoining the EU in four. James, there's quite a lot of people supporting a closer

relationship with the EU if this poll is to be believed. Yes and I think that this is a great way

for both sides. The Conservatives and Labour sort of talk around the issue without addressing

the more thorny question of rejoin say also formal structures like the single market etc.

David Lamy gave a speech this week where he talked about the importance of building such

such ties and working with things like having the veterinary agreement and closer on such

standards in order to allow easier trade with the EU and I think basically it's going to be the

the situation we see for the next few years in British politics is Labour in particular talking

about closer ties with the EU but not actually going the sort of full hog of actually suggesting

rejoin certainly not on next election but potentially maybe at the end of the going for a second

term there could be where we push this for that within the party as you've seen from you know

people like Celeste Creasy who chairs the debut European movement and on the Conservative side

I think we should see next certainly mark the break with the recent past you know Boris Johnson

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