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Unbound Briefing Room – W/C 28 September 2026

Germany issues EU budget ultimatum

The FT is reporting that "German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and five other EU leaders have threatened to withhold agreement on the bloc’s next seven-year budget unless 'hundreds of billions' of euros in spending cuts are secured". Politico has a non-paywalled version of the story here.

This is a timely reminder that the EU budget is set to grow substantially, as are the Brexit savings on contributions that the UK would have had to make if still a member.

Back in July, Britain Unbound published a paper on the potential Brexit savings, which could soon be at least £35 billion a year! You can read the paper here.

Our take on Andy Burnham's Labour conference speech.

The Prime Minister's speech was like catnip to rejoiners, but added nothing of substance.

The claim that "Brexit hasn't given us control" is nonsense. It has. The real issue is that successive government's haven't made enough of the new freedoms.

Project Rejoin's so called UK-EU "reset" will just hand more control back to Brussels.

Pinning swings in illegal migration on Brexit is a red herring. But Brexit has allowed the UK to retake control of legal migration from the EU.

And he's welcome to lay out the different options for what the long-term relationship with the EU should be….

Poll after poll shows that support for rejoining the EU is weak and shallow - very few regard as a priority, and any support falls away whenever the costs and conditions are presented.

What's more, when faced with a full range of options, there is more support for those that do not include EU membership than for rejoin!

Unite boss warns campaigning to rejoin EU 'won't go down well'

In an interview with LBC Sharon Graham made a timely restatement of the Labour case for Leave "like making sure we buy British, for example, which is something that would have been a problem before"…

Fewer than 2% really care about Europe

New polling by Ipsos of 1003 people found just 16 (<2%) who thought the EU / Europe / Brexit was an important issue facing the UK - and only 4 who thought it was the top priority!

"Brexit Britain" powering ahead

Updated GDP figures from the ONS show UK growth continues to outpace Europe's other major (G7) economies, as it did in 2025; another narrative buster for those claiming "Brexit Britain" is continuing to fall behind.

The strength of business investment is particularly encouraging. The initial uncertainty after the vote to leave in 2016, compounded by the unnecessarily prolonged exit negotiations, was a key factor explaining why UK business investment stalled after 2016. But now the UK has left the EU and Brexit-related uncertainty has eased, business investment is recovering strongly. Unless, of course, Burnham is foolish enough to start the process all over again…

An extra £1 trillion of liabilities...

Some sobering numbers in a new report from independent financial analyst Bob Lyddon, who estimates that rejoining the EU would add an extra £1 trillion (£1,000 billion) to the UK’s already-expanding shadow financial liabilities.

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Britain Unbound Team
Sep 29, 2026

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