Scottish Labour leader says UK rejoining EU ‘not a realistic prospect’

LIVERPOOL — Scottish Labour’s new leader, Michael Marra, said he does not believe there is a “realistic prospect” of the U.K. rejoining the European Union because of “huge political instability” across the continent. Speaking at the POLITICO pub during Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, Marra argued that the changing political landscape in Germany and France meant the EU was not in a position to consider a British return “on any terms that we might think is reasonable.” Scotland’s governing Scottish National Party has repeatedly called for the U.K. to rejoin the bloc after 62% of Scots voted to remain in the EU in 2016. But Marra said that while he’d support a U.K.