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Rachel Reeves’ push to improve EU ties remains boxed in by red lines

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Rachel Reeves is seeking a deeper, more mature relationship’ between Britain and the EU .

She wants it to be closer, stronger, “mature [again] and businesslike” Little concrete detail emerged from Reeves ’s Brussels jaunt.

Exactly what the UK government wants from the EU is much harder to discern.

The rules may have been too loose, and too little has undoubtedly been done to home-grow our own talent.

But to make the argument stick, Labour will also have to reckon with its vexed relationship with migration.

Reeves ’s interventions on Europe in recent weeks are best read as the start of a determined effort to make a case for a closer relationship with the EU .