We speak your mind. Enjoy free-thinking comment that champions your values. | | Rachel Reeves has said she wants closer ties to Brussels despite saying Britain could not “go back in time” last month | Rachel Reeves has said that she is “up for” taking Britain closer to the EU.
The Chancellor described current negotiations over youth mobility, food standards and energy policy as “first base” and said closer relations with the bloc represented the “biggest prize” for the British economy.
Speaking at an event in London, Reeves said Labour was willing to cede more powers to Brussels to secure a better economic deal.
It is a significant shift in tone from the Chancellor who, just weeks ago, told an audience in Davos that Britain could not go “back in time” in its relationship with the EU. Below, Szu Ping Chan, our Economics Editor, takes a closer look at Reeves’s comments.
 | Szu Ping Chan Economics Editor | Brexit reset or Brexit surrender? Rachel Reeves made it clear last night that she would be pushing for closer trade ties with the European Union.
The Chancellor declared that she was “up for” doing more business with the bloc – and the arguments that will entail – even if it means ceding more powers to Brussels.
“I strongly believe that Britain’s future is inextricably bound with that of Europe,” she declared. “And that is for economic reasons ... but also reasons of security, resilience and defence.”
What price is she willing to pay? The first thing any seasoned trade negotiator will tell you is that, when it comes to doing trade deals, countries don’t have friends, they have interests. Reeves sees closer alignment as key to unlocking higher economic growth. She also wants to bring standards in line with the bloc in an attempt to remove the red tape strangling businesses.
At the same time, Brussels is setting out its own “Made in Europe” strategy that threatens to shut out Britain and also wants more free movement of people through a youth mobility deal. In short, closer alignment probably also involves relinquishing powers, and signing cheques, to Brussels.
Such a move potentially faces a backlash from voters as well as the White House, which is also negotiating an enhanced trade deal with Britain.
Tying Britain’s fate to the EU’s moribund economy may not be wise –but, with pressure from his own Cabinet building, a weakened Sir Keir Starmer may not be able to resist pressure to reverse Brexit.
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In recent days, The Telegraph’s letter-writers have been waging war against euphemism – and one evasive expression in particular. It all began with Sir Stephen Fry, who, as our Peterborough column reported, complained on a podcast about “people saying ‘pass’ instead of die”.
This struck a chord with the Rev Barbara Steele-Perkins. “I wish I had the nerve to challenge any who say it to me,” she wrote. “Can you imagine a Good Friday sermon talking about Jesus, who ‘passed’ on the cross?”
Philip Roberts responded: “I am a retired funeral director, and this habit has annoyed me for some time. Many years ago, our company inscribed ‘fell asleep’, followed by a date, on coffin nameplates. On one occasion, someone remarked: ‘He isn’t dead, then.’ After that, we simply used the word ‘died’.”
Of course, not all euphemisms are equally bad. Some, as Chris Porter pointed out, are much worse than others: “I agree that ‘passed’ is dreadful. However, it remains preferable to ‘gone to Rose Cottage’ – a phrase used in hospitals in the 1970s.”
Some, according to David Raynes, might even be considered to have “a certain charm”. “Here in Somerset, one is told that the deceased has ‘gone on’.”
George S Pearson added: “The Norwegians describe those who have shuffled off as having ‘sovet stille ind i dag’: ‘slept in quietly today’.”
Finally, I enjoyed this from Nick Serpell: “When I was a BBC obituary editor, I made sure that my reflections on the deaths of the great and the good avoided any euphemisms. I do recall my shudder when coming across the deaths column in a Los Angeles newspaper headed ‘Passings’.
“A more robust approach was taken in the past. One 19th-century Cornish newspaper carried an account of the death of an elderly lady that ended with the line: ‘She fell from her chair, a corpse.’” Which euphemisms annoy you most? Or do you feel moved to mount a defence? Send your responses here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, for which you can sign up here.
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