Ten years on from the Brexit referendum, is Trump pushing the UK back into the arms of the EU?

Press quote (The Brussels Times)
16 April 2026

Another obstacle to deepening EU-UK economic ties is that both sides remain hamstrung by narrow political constraints. “Both are transactional in their approach to the relationship, and miss the bigger picture,” says Ian Bond, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank with offices in London, Brussels and Berlin.

...“The UK’s problem is that member-states may not want to offer the UK a better deal if they think a Reform UK government will tear it up in a few years; but the economic effect of the absence of such a deal may make a Reform victory more likely,” the CER’s Bond points out.