🔴 Lisa Nandy has dismissed the idea of rejoining the EU as “fantasy” but said the party will set out how it will change the relationship with bloc before the next election
Nandy’s big idea is that people need to feel much more ownership of the decisions that affect them, and politics won’t work properly until they do. But what if people want to set up new grammar schools or block desperately needed new housing in their area? Isn’t everyone in favour of so-called localism right up to the moment the locals do the ‘wrong’ thing?
“And for me that is at the heart of levelling up. That’s not in opposition to levelling up. The point is that if you hand decision-making to people who have a stake in the outcome and skin in the game, they will make good decisions, and decisions that last.”, she argues that the biggest decision for a generation – to leave the EU – was rooted in people’s frustration at being unable to influence things that affected them.
She dismisses those that want the party to commit to rejoining the bloc’s single market as a “fantasy” that “won’t take the country forward”.
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