One of the attendees at a “secret” meeting on improving Brexit was Michael Gove.
A two-day meeting looking at measures to strengthen collaboration with the EU was attended by the Levelling Up Secretary.
Along with Brexit supporters, prominent Labour officials Lord Mandelson and Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy attended the event at the Ditchley Park location in Oxfordshire.
Oliver Robbins, Theresa May’s former top EU ambassador, was among the other guests from business, according to the Observer.
How can we improve the way that Brexit works with our European neighbors? was the theme of the conference.
According to an introduction, there is now a belief that “the UK has not yet found its path ahead outside the EU,” at least among some.
Inhibiting the UK’s potential and serving as a drag on our economy, according to one claim made about Brexit.
Mr. Gove, who led the Vote Leave campaign in 2016 with Boris Johnson, was said to have been “honest” about Brexit’s drawbacks while reiterating his conviction that it would ultimately be the correct choice.
The suggestion that it was a secret summit, according to one source, was “nonsense,” and Mr. Gove was only there because he is a governor of Ditchley Park, which regularly hosts summits on a range of subjects.
It was said that the event was “very uninteresting” and had “little relation” to discussions around the Northern Ireland Protocol or “importance for government policy.”
The major theme of it, according to a person who spoke to the Observer, was that Britain is losing out, that Brexit is failing, and that our economy is vulnerable.
The topic was “going beyond leave and stay, what are the difficulties we now have to deal with, and how can we get in the best position to have a talk with the EU about reforms to the UK-EU trade and cooperation agreement when that comes.”
Rejoining the EU “will not be on the agenda,” according to summit materials.
Former cabinet members of the Tories Michael Howard and Norman Lamont, as well as former minister of state for Europe from the Labour Party, Gisela Stuart, attended the event.
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