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So how would you actually ‘remain and reform' the EU?
NICK WRIGHT looks at the reality of passing left-wing treaties in the European Parliament — rather than simply leaving it
Jean-Claude Juncker rings a bell during a weekly College of Commissioners meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels

THE MOST contentious issue in Britain’s politics for a generation finds socialists — who agree on almost every political question of significance — at loggerheads over whether Britain should leave the European Union.

Set against the clear injunction from the British people and backed by what we might describe as the “Lexit internationalist left” — to leave the European Union — we have a spectrum of views which equally claim an internationalist identity and assert that the EU can be transformed in a socialist direction.

There has always existed a trend in Labour, on the right and centre of the party, which saw first the Common Market, and later the EU in its various mutations, as the place for a Labour government to situate Britain.

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