{"id":113586,"date":"2025-05-19T05:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T05:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113586\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T05:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T05:48:08","slug":"starmers-eu-e-passport-plan-would-be-the-ultimate-brexit-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113586\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer&#8217;s EU e-passport plan would be the ultimate Brexit win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I was passing through Stockholm\u2019s Arlanda airport on the way to a professional commitment in Sweden. A WhatsApp from a colleague pinged into my phone as I came through arrivals, so I\u2019m able, as it happens, to quote verbatim my thoughts at the time: \u2018Just in the arrivals hall now, and as I queue in \u201call other passports\u201d, I am once again reminded of what a stupid [expletive deleted] idea Brexit was.\u2019 I may, indeed, to my shame, have added some unflattering reflections on the policy of the magazine I have the honour to work for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For most people, it\u2019s only in that passport queue that they will think about Brexit much at all<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It strikes me that my experience in that passport queue, and the experience of many like me, was one of the last real Brexit noticeables. For as time goes on, the effects of Brexit \u2013 both positive and negative \u2013 become less and less visible to most of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, I was passing through Stockholm\u2019s Arlanda airport on the way to a professional commitment in Sweden.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-113586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}