# Former Brexit boss says Britain should rejoin EU

**URL:** <https://discussion.fool.com/t/former-brexit-boss-says-britain-should-rejoin-eu/124487>\
**Category:** Macro Economic Trends and Risks\
**Created:** [April 25, 2026, 8:51am UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/former-brexit-boss-says-britain-should-rejoin-eu/124487 "2026-04-25T08:51:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 8:51am UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/former-brexit-boss-says-britain-should-rejoin-eu/124487/1 "2026-04-25T08:51:10Z")

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> Britain should consider rejoining the European Union after none of the Leave campaign’s “heady promises” materialised, the man who led the country’s departure from the bloc has said.
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> Philip Rycroft, former permanent secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union, said there needs to be a “clear-headed appraisal of what is in the country’s best interests” and that life outside the EU had not lived up to lofty expectations. …
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> “Most economic analysis suggests that we have taken a significant hit to GDP as a result of leaving the single market,” he added. … “We are seemingly no nearer achieving an immigration policy that commands general consent,” he continued, in reference to the Leave campaign’s promise that leaving the bloc would allow the UK to take back control of its borders. …
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> “The great promise of a comprehensive trade deal with the USA now seems like an impossible dream,” he said. …

> **[Former Brexit boss says Britain should rejoin EU after failed ‘heady promises’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-britain-rejoin-eu-philip-rycroft-b2963962.html)**
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> Philip Rycroft said the British public was ‘falling out of love’ with Brexit

> **[Britain should seek to rejoin EU, says civil servant who led Brexit department](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/24/britain-should-rejoin-eu-philip-rycroft)**
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> Philip Rycroft says promises on issues from economics to immigration have not lived up to expectations

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**Author:** ![Leap1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/user_avatar/discussion.fool.com/leap1/32/72176_2.png) [@Leap1](https://discussion.fool.com/u/Leap1)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 10:59am UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/former-brexit-boss-says-britain-should-rejoin-eu/124487/2 "2026-04-25T10:59:35Z")

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Spitting into the wind is costly.

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**Author:** ![intercst](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/user_avatar/discussion.fool.com/intercst/32/1543_2.png) [@intercst](https://discussion.fool.com/u/intercst)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 3:08pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/former-brexit-boss-says-britain-should-rejoin-eu/124487/3 "2026-04-25T15:08:41Z")

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Yep. Using racism, ignorance and innumeracy to inform public policy is often suboptimal.

intercst

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**Author:** ![flyerboys](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/user_avatar/discussion.fool.com/flyerboys/32/2123_2.png) [@flyerboys](https://discussion.fool.com/u/flyerboys)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/former-brexit-boss-says-britain-should-rejoin-eu/124487/4 "2026-04-25T16:05:17Z")

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> [@intercst](#):
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> Using racism, ignorance and innumeracy to inform public policy is often suboptimal…

…for everyone except the demagogues who briefly get egoic gratification and (for the clever ones) a small fortune in graft, while the idiot public gets oblivioously screwed, becomes angrier, and therefore primed for another rodgering.