Keir Starmer says he does not think rejoining single market would boost economic growth ‘at this stage’has been doing interviews this morning ahead of the publication of the report from the party’s Commission on the UK’s Future, chaired by Gordon Brown.
No, at this stage, I don’t think it would. And there’s no case for going back to the EU, or going back into the single market. I do think there’s a case for a better Brexit. I do think there’s a very strong case for making Brexit work.pressed him again on this, pointing out that economists say trade has suffered because the UK has been out of the single market,I think trade has gone down because the deal that we’ve got is not a very good deal. I think we can move from getting Brexit done, which is all that we’ve managed at the moment, to making Brexit work and I do think there’s a better deal.
But do I think … that going back into years of wrangling, years of uncertainty, is going to help the economy? No, I don’t. I spent many, many years post-2016 talking to businesses who said to me, over and over again, the thing that’s hardest for us is all the uncertainty. And that for many years held us back.holds a press conference with Gordon Brown to launch the report from the Commission on the UK’s Future, which Brown chaired.Starmer and Brown hold a second launch of the commission’s report in Edinburgh.MPs resume their debate on the online safety bill.
You should never have left, Europe didn’t wantyou to go, but now Europe is better off without you
More Lala Land word salad ignoring economic reality.
Is he a Tory?