- The threat to the economy and the impact on the welfare of the public are sufficient reasons to apply to rejoin the EU, regardless of what happened between 2016 to date, prior to COVID-19.
The thrust of our recent articles in this journal and on NLJ online has been to challenge the legitimacy of the 2016 European Union referendum and the government’s withdrawal decision, invoking the proven instances of electoral malfeasance over the referendum and the government’s wholesale failure to take account of the socio-economic consequences of leaving the EU for the UK. Now, however, the domination of politics by Brexit over the past four years has rapidly given way to the overwhelming impact of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) on almost every facet of the lives of the world’s population.
The time has therefore come to put aside our frustrations with the revelations of electoral fraud and suspected interference in the referendum process by Russia. Let us for the moment disregard
