The New Statesman.

With Donald Trump threatening tariffs on the UK and eviscerating Kirstama on truth social,

does the PM have no choice but to run back into the arms of the EU?

Many Labour MPs think yes.

I'm Rachel Connolliffe and joining me today is our editor-in-chief Tom McTeague.

Hello, Tom.

And you are going to talk us through Stama and Europe and the dilemma encapsulated in that question

because we've got a Labour Party that's always been kind of broadly pro-EU.

Brexit's been on the back burner while Kirstama's been Prime Minister,

but now the whispers, the calls for a closer relationship with our European allies

in light of what's going on across the Atlantic.

They're only going to grow louder, aren't they?

Yeah, it's such an amazing moment in British politics.

And I was trying to think about, you know, how to think about this,

how to think about this moment, this question of Europe,

and how it sort of keeps coming back in British politics over and over again.

And I think one of the ways it keeps coming back has always been America, actually. It's

America's looming presence over Britain and how we approach this sort of question that has

existed since 1950. Is America the future or is Europe the future? And that question has always divided British politics.

In some ways, the Labour Party began as a Eurosceptic party in the 50s until the 80s, really.

And then there was a kind of great switch under Margaret Thatcher when the Conservative Party and the right became the Eurosceptic Party

and Labour moved into a more pro-European position. And you wonder today whether something again

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