{"id":35187,"date":"2026-11-09T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/09\/i-wrote-labours-brexit-red-lines-this-is-why-its-time-to-scrap-them-chris-ward\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:00:14","slug":"i-wrote-labours-brexit-red-lines-this-is-why-its-time-to-scrap-them-chris-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/09\/i-wrote-labours-brexit-red-lines-this-is-why-its-time-to-scrap-them-chris-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"I wrote Labour\u2019s Brexit red lines. This is why it\u2019s time to scrap them | Chris Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world has moved on since 2020 \u2013 in uncertain times, closer ties to Europe are the best way to peace and securityChris Ward is Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown and PeacehavenIf offering the public some \u201cbreathing space\u201d in the cost of living crisis was the mantra of last month\u2019s budget, the political space it created to revisit our relationship with the European Union may prove more defining.I\u2019ve spent what feels like much of the past decade immersed in the Brexit debate \u2013 first as an adviser, then helping to craft the red lines that shaped Labour\u2019s 2024 manifesto, and latterly as a Cabinet Office minister working on the EU-reset. In truth, the discussions we have had as a country and within my party on this issue have not really moved on since the moment we left on 31 January 2020.Chris Ward is Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world has moved on since 2020 \u2013 in uncertain times, closer ties to Europe are the best way to peace and securityChris Ward is Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown and PeacehavenIf offering the public\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}