This may be a tactical u-turn before the next election ( we had a mini-manifesto yesterday). If Labour manages to scrape a win then this may well become compulsory again.
If they scrape a win next time around then there's no hope for anything and we'd be better off leaving the country before they implement it.
It's good that they're slowly rolling back all the cr
P and hopefully won't have wasted too much of our money by the time they're out of a job.