Future of UK lies in the EU after Brexit ‘failure’, say European Greens

The European Green party has urged the UK to consider rejoining the EU and draw a line under the “political and economic failure” of Brexit. A text declaring that “the United Kingdom’s future lies in the European Union” was adopted by a large majority of European green parties at the movement’s annual leadership meeting on Friday, the day before Europe Day. Insiders said it was the first time a European political party had officially invited the UK to rejoin the EU. “Somebody has to trigger the debate,” Vula Tsetsi, the European Green party cochair, said in an interview. “The main discussion belongs first and foremost to the democratic debate in the United Kingdom and we don’t want to take that place, but we would like to trigger that debate as a European political family. Maybe other political families will join, but for us the moment is now.” The intervention came after Keir Starmer’s Labour party suffered heavy losses in local elections at the expense of Nigel Farage’s Reform party gains, while the Greens appeared to be struggling to convert increased votes into seats. The text on reversing Brexit was part of a broader declaration by European Green party leaders calling for energy independence and action to counter the far-right. It states: “Brexit has been a political and economic failure with lasting negative consequences for people in the United Kingdom and across Europe. “The European Green family is clear: the United Kingdom’s future lies in the European Union. …