Keir Starmer draws election battle line as he promises closer trading arrangements with EU

The Conservative Party has accused Keir Starmer of wanting to bring Britain “back to quadrate one” connected Brexit, aft the Labour person said helium would renegotiate the UK’s post-Brexit trading presumption with the European Union if his enactment gains power.

Mr Starmer, who is successful France connected Tuesday gathering president Emmanuel Macron, said helium owed it to his children to negociate a person trading narration with the EU, successful a departure from his past caution erstwhile it came to commenting connected Brexit issues.

It is besides the 2nd clip successful caller days that helium has emphasised a wide argumentation quality connected European issues compared with the government, aft past week announcing that a Labour authorities would question a wide woody with the EU connected asylum seekers.

Mr Starmer said the woody connected Brexit commercialized arrangements struck by erstwhile premier curate Boris Johnson was “far excessively thin” and helium would usage the reappraisal of the woody that is pencilled successful for 2025 to negociate a person arrangement.

“Almost everyone recognises the woody Johnson struck is not a bully deal,” helium said, successful comments archetypal reported by the Financial Times. “As we spell into 2025 we volition effort to get a overmuch amended woody for the UK.”

He referred to Britain’s request for economical maturation and besides the aboriginal helium wants for his 15-year-old lad and a 12-year-old daughter.

“I’m not going to fto them turn up successful a satellite wherever each I’ve got to accidental to them astir their aboriginal is that it’s going to beryllium worse than it mightiness different person been.”

A spokesperson successful 10 Downing Street told journalists connected Monday that the authorities would not reopen the commercialized woody with Brussels “in immoderate mode signifier oregon form”.

“We’re not looking to relitigate the past,” said a spokesperson for UK premier curate Rishi Sunak.

The determination by Mr Starmer to instrumentality statement connected to crushed – migration and Brexit – wherever helium has antecedently avoided contention is being viewed successful Westminster arsenic portion of the drafting of wide conflict lines with the Tories successful beforehand of the wide predetermination expected adjacent year.

On the different broadside of the fence, the Conservatives person successful caller months been keen to unfastened up different conflict enactment of their ain with Labour, connected clime issues.

Both parties are engaged successful last preparations for their setpiece yearly conferences adjacent period – the Tories successful Manchester followed by Labour successful Liverpool – wherever each person volition laic retired their imaginativeness for triumph successful the election. In summation to the lightning rod contented of immigration, the system and Britain’s anaemic maturation is expected to beryllium astatine the bosom of some parties’ manifestos.

Former British premier curate Liz Truss has suggested that the system would beryllium increasing overmuch faster had her short-lived reign of past twelvemonth continued. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Meanwhile, successful a blast from the past, erstwhile premier curate Liz Truss gave a code astatine the Institute for Government successful London connected Monday successful which she suggested that the system would beryllium increasing overmuch faster had her short-lived reign of past twelvemonth continued.

She called for a scope of taxation cuts to stimulate growth, arsenic she complained that the economical docket had go dominated by left-wing reasoning successful caller years. She besides lashed retired astatine immoderate chap members of the Conservative enactment for stymieing her agenda.

“The anti-growth conjugation is present a almighty unit comprising the economical and governmental elite, corporatists, parts of the media and adjacent a conception of the Conservative parliamentary party. The policies I advocator simply aren’t fashionable connected the London meal enactment circuit,” said Ms Truss.