Pro-EU campaigner Mike Galsworthy: 'We need to build our way back into the EU step by step'

"We want to avoid using the words Brexit or re-join,” says Mike Galsworthy, an idealist who’s smart enough to acknowledge his own idealism.

Achieving even half his objectives would be victory for the European Movement UK, almost the last pro-EU organisation standing after the recriminations of the Remain campaign’s internal strife. As its chairman, Galsworthy’s mission is to build back support for a closer relationship with the EU step by step. The biggest challenge of all may be persuading the public to even consider these issues again, so traumatic was the