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If the only lever available to the next government to generate serious growth in the UK economy is closer alignment with the EU, Nick Thomas-Symonds has an important and maybe impossible job. For now he's a shadow minister without portfolio. In practice he's Labour's point person on Europe. From 5 July, as things stand, he'll be tasked with rebuilding trust with Brussels and persuading the European Commission that asking for better trade terms without rejoining the single market isn't “cherry-picking”. Side note: teaching politics at Oxford in his early 20s, Thomas-Symonds had a student called Kayleigh McEnany. She went on to be press secretary for Donald Trump.
