Helen Pitt

Yeah.

Yeah, and I suppose public opinion has also shifted in the past 10 years, hasn't it?

If you look at most of the opinion polls that have been done in the past couple of months, they all seem to show a similar picture, which is that a majority would now vote to rejoin the EU.

And therefore, he's got more of the electorate behind him when he starts saying things as he did at the start of this month when he said Brexit had done deep damage to the UK economy.

And he said that renewing closer relationships with Europe would mean, quote, a partnership for a dangerous world we must navigate together.

So I wonder if you think that this global pitch, the global instability that we're facing right now is also encouraging him to be more bold in pursuing this closer relationship.

Coming up, is Starmer putting the UK on a path to rejoining the EU?

And just to finish talking again about the kind of broader European picture, obviously Hungary is only one of 27 countries in the EU.

And on Today in Focus, we've covered for years how far-right parties and anti-EU sentiment are on the rise in Europe.

And I just wonder the extent to which you see...

Orban's defeat as a turning point in Europe.

I wonder, for example, how Marine Le Pen in France will be feeling right now, seeing what's happened over in Hungary.

Yeah.

And Alice Weidel potentially also in Germany with the AFD.

Yes, of course.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know the EU better than most people.

How strong do you think the union is looking right now in these unstable and uncertain times?

And finally, there was something I thought was really interesting that the incoming prime minister of Hungary said in his first press conference this week.