I almost agree with you Jonny.
Though this is not the first step, that already taken by Sunak, with the Windsor framework.
As I said at the time, to the consternation of some, BREXIT is being slowly but surely wound back.
I’ve also said, and will repeat it her, the EU will not engage with the UK on meaningful rejoin talks until the Tories have returned to some semblance of rationality.
Grim as it is, this inevitably pivots on a few more ‘Boomers’ shaking of their mortal coil, it it is an inevitability that the Tories will return to center ground politics where EU membership resides.
Meanwhile, Labour will continue to engage in all the necessary moves that are not ‘joining the EU’ but are necessary to ‘rejoin the EU’.
It’s good to see rational sense in charge again.