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Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer
SIR KEIR STARMER said today he does not think there is a case for rejoining the EU or a need for a “major renegotiation” of Boris Johnson’s trade deal.
The Labour leader, who was a prominent voice in the campaign for a second referendum and in his leadership election promised to “defend” freedom of movement, said he had whipped his MPs to back the Prime Minister’s “thin” deal because “the alternative was no deal.”
It was approved by MPs just one day before the Brexit transition period ended on December 31.
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
STEPHEN ARNELL examines whether Starmer is a canny strategist playing a longer game or heading for MacDonald’s Great Betrayal, tracing parallels between today’s rightward drift and the 1931 crisis
