On march 24th the House of Commons debated a petition for the UK to rejoin the EU. The petition had upward of 130,000 signatures, but Parliamentary procedure did not allow for a vote at the end of the debate. In the online record I couldn’t find any indication of who attended, only of who contributed; and the contributions came mainly from Labour, Lib Dem, Scottish Nationalist and Plaid Cymru MPs. They were overwhelmingly in favour of the petition. I could only find three clearly anti-rejoin voices, one conservative, one DUP and one TUV (Traditional Unionist Voice). It would be very interesting to know how many conservative MPs actually attended. Other than those exceptions, reading the transcript frankly felt like a rejoin echo-chamber. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office, Abena Oppong-Asare was present, and at the end she gave the government position, which I guess we know by now. ‘You name it, we have no plans to rejoin it’. I assume she also fed the sense of the debate back to Starmer. If he didn’t already realise the extent of support for rejoin among Labour MPs, he does now.
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