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#Britain would not be able to rejoin the #EU on the special terms it enjoyed in the past, veterans of the Brexit negotiations have said.
“There is a strategic need for the #EU and the #UK to work together, but I don’t think there would be an appetite for opening up new decades of #British exceptionalism,” #GeorgRiekeles, a former adviser on the EU’s #Brexit taskforce, said. “The price of re-entry would be membership on normal terms.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/18/no-tailor-made-deal-uk-eu-brexit-officials-rejoin
