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Rachel Reeves has announced a new diplomatic push to drive Britain closer to the European Union.
I have today fired the starting gun of where we want to go next,
and that is closer alignment, Britain's Chancellor told The Economist on March 17th.
Earlier in the day, in the annual Mays lecture at the Bayes Business School in London,
she called time on the era of a globetrotting post-Brexit Britain that could do without Europe.
The country's vital national interest lay with its continental neighbours, she said.
On March 18th, she made her case at a meeting in Madrid with Carlos Cuepo, the Spanish economy minister.
Her European counterparts, she claims, are listening keenly.
Since coming to office, Labour has embarked on a cautious rapprochement with the EU.
A diplomatic reset has been followed by negotiations for de facto participation in the single market
in energy and agricultural products.
In recent months, the government has indicated it wants to go further.
Yet Ms Reeves' interview marks an escalation, the clearest indication of the scope of the government's new ambition.
With it, she has put to the sword the orthodoxies about Britain's place in the world that have underpinned the policy
of both Conservative and Labour governments since David Cameron's referendum of 2016.
And yet the limits on the push to return to Europe, familiar after ten years of Perma negotiations, can already be seen.