BERLIN \u2013 It is only partially a coincidence that the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum \u2014 the event that provoked a toxic polarization of British politics \u2014 was marked by another political casualty: the resignation of U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n
Starmer is leaving with characteristic dignity, but without having delivered on the promise he made two years ago to revive the British economy. One key reason for his failure was Britain\u2019s withdrawal from the European Union. Just recently, a major study put the cost of Brexit at 6% to\u00a08% of the U.K.\u2019s gross domestic product over the decade since the vote. Given such eye-watering costs, it should come as no surprise that the British public\u2019s thinking about the relationship between the United Kingdom and continental Europe has undergone a quiet revolution since 2016.<\/p>\n
To be sure, you wouldn\u2019t know it from following intergovernmental negotiations or debates in the media. Politicians in London and across EU capitals insist that almost nothing has changed. Many of the faces are even the same. Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform party is leading the polls in the U.K. and the Labour government still refers to previous governments\u2019 \u201cred lines\u201d vis-a-vis Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN \u2013 It is only partially a coincidence that the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum \u2014 the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31222,30306,1958,35936,8,33,7839],"class_list":["post-53972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-brexit","tag-british-economy","tag-eu","tag-eu-economy","tag-japan","tag-nihon","tag-u-k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}