“We don’t need a rerun of politicians leveraging this huge issue for their own advantage.” Entering the EU will take a long period of diplomacy and a whole lot of “bootlicking” and the topic needs to be treated seriously to avoid a rerun of it being leveraged in a party leadership debate, says Times columnist Sarah Ditum. Sarah Ditum was speaking to Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio. Listen live every day from 10am-1pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/