Perhaps Mrs Sturgoen can be a lot smarter than that.

Why would she want to join the EU? It has become a neoliberal project destroying the rights and needs of its very own citizens. The list is painfully long: the unjustifiable sanctions after years of baiting Russia, the ‘no net land take’ planned ruling forcing people to live in high-rent city apartments to be financially milked, the digital Euro to end cash and gain full centralised control over peoples finances, the digital passports containing all your data so-called for health protection and let us not forget the radical censorship of all dissenting voices, especially during the so-called pandemic, all of which would make even dictator Kim Jong-un blush with envy.

This current EU project must end. I hope that from its neo-liberal elitist ashes a new and far better Europe will arise. Ulrike Guérot's European Republic of regions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkSIgXPakSo

Why doesn't Mrs Sturgoen just help set this up and become one of its founding members? No need to consult White Hall. Just slowly erode the relationship by creating a far better replacement they have zero control over. Any direct confrontation she will lose as the English have centuries of experience in brutally suppressing the freedom of their exploited colonies.