Major Parties in Britain and Germany Are Failing To Learn

Wes Streeting wants to take Britain back towards the European Union. Or at least closer to it – close enough to feel the warmth without quite committing. Brussels, naturally, is delighted. Here, at last, is a senior British minister who speaks the language of regulatory alignment and single-market adjacency. The grown-ups, they believe, are back. Finally an antidote to Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe, they must be thinking.