And he struck a distinctly Eurosceptic note by again highlighting Labour’s concerns about the state aid rules that form part of the architecture of the single market...“I think the state aid rules do need to be looked at again, because quite clearly, if you want to regenerate an economy, as we would want to do in government, then I don’t want to be told by somebody else that we can’t use state aid in order to be able to develop industry in this country,” he said.
This edition also contains a candidate for the weakest connection between Brexit and another news story:
This week’s airport chaos seemed to sum up the surreal state of Britain as it contemplates an uncertain future
And a millenial founder of a PV campaign, the rather revealingly entitled Our Future Our Choice, shows the dangers of relying on supporters of single-issue politics for mainstream political parties:
Parliament seems hellbent on frittering away my generation’s future – while destroying young people’s faith in politics
Our elders are supposed to know better, to be wiser, yet I see no leadership and no plan: nothing for my generation but prolonged posturing.[the link leads to an item about a decline in seasonal consumer spending]... the ever-shrinking, ever-aging Conservative base...They can wave goodbye to the support of my generation..it was my generation that propelled Corbyn to the brink of Downing Street last year. And my generation will turn its back on him if he betrays us now. One poll last week shows Labour’s support among young people would plummet from 60% to 33% if it helps enable Brexit...we are scared about how Brexit will affect our futures; many of us did not have a say in the initial vote; and if we were given a chance to make our voices heard we would vote to stay in Europe.
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