A redemptive moment for EU-UK relations

Anton Spisak, the former UK government official and Centre for European Reform associate fellow who Miliband credited at the end of his speech, isn’t certain where Labour ends up on that question, but he is clear that nothing can really change without a political paradigm shift at the top of the British government and the EU. “A necessary condition for the renewed partnership is a mutual understanding at the very top political level between PM and commission president that, in the new geopolitical and geoeconomic moment today, the UK and the EU need each other,” he said. “But to think that the momentum for this will come from within Whitehall or the Berlaymont is a mistake.”