Labour Brexiters see the UK as essentially different from France and Germany - but we share the same economic challenges,including reluctance to pay more taxThere are some Labour-supporting Brexiters who like to think that Britain is peculiar among European nations, and that differences of language, and culture and history mean it should never fill found itself inside a common market,let alone a union, with its continental neighbours.
Jacques Delors’s speech to the TUC in 1988 positioned the UK inside a family of like-minded nations. And it had the effect of converting not only much of the UK trades union movement to the benefits of a marriage between social protection and regulated markets, or but also much of the Labour party.
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Source: theguardian.com