On Monday Britain and the EU announced a series of new agreements ranging from sausages to arms sales.
While the details of the deal are yet to be signed, it seemed to many like the start of a new, post-Brexit era.
It reflects, as the Guardian’s deputy political editor Jessica Elgot reports, a change in the public mood: tired of the endless rancour over Britain leaving the EU, but tired of the many inconveniences it caused too.
Still, with Reform UK surging in the polls, it is an area fraught with risk for the Labour government. So how far, Helen Pidd asks, could it be willing to go with Britain’s rapprochement with the EU?
