How Labour squares the circle of holding onto their former pro European supporters who make up the majority of those working within the party machine and their adopted Lexit supporters in the Red Wall, will be the dilemma of a Starmer Premiership.
The tendency of Starmer to not give too much away may build frustration amongst the wider Labour members. However, much drunk on their potential majority, they will initially become in their first few months.
Also, how many Red Wall Labour supporters will keep up their support as a Starmer Brexit deal renegotiation begins?, though It will be a moment of opportunity for Labour to revert back to a more Pro EU alignment position, if he wants to win over business professionals and the wider business community who would would welcome more pro European ambitious alignment for ease of trade with the EU and dramatically reducing barriers for Trade in goods and services.
The hope is that with the threat of a Marine le Pen election win , the EU Commission will be more than willing to bend their red lines on cherry picking, with the aim of boosting their partnership with the UK to offset instability caused by the French political instability. With already there being talk about market volatility in the face of a potenial Marine le Pen controlled National Assembly in France.
Here lies an opportunity for Starmer , to exploit this through selling his position to the EU as one of a stabilising force for the EU, boosting trade between Germany and the UK through a reduction of barriers for Trade in manufacturing goods through his Brexit Trade deal renegotiation.
Germany would would want to seize this opportunity given the state of their own economy at the moment, the intransigence of the EU’s position on ‘cherry picking’ can only last so long with their most important member state in the Doldrums.
The Reformist 