The PM thinks bringing out the old anti-Brexit lines will help save his skin – but ask the British people whether they’d pay to rejoin the bloc and it’s a flat ‘nein danke’, says John Rentoul T he timing is curious. Keir Starmer is planning to give a speech , “pencilled in for Monday”, in praise of closer links with the European Union. If a warming of relations with the EU is so popular, why hasn’t Labour been banging that drum before today’s elections instead of waiting until after the polls