🔴 Sir Keir Starmer has refused to say whether he would be prepared to trade off areas of UK sovereignty in order to forge the closer economic ties he has called for with the EU
But the Labour leader entirely dodged answering the question.
He said: “We’ve sent out I set in a speech I gave to the Irish embassy last year five principles that we’ve applied in terms of improving our relationship with living I don’t think anybody now seriously argues that this so called oven ready deal is actually working for anyone so of course we have to address that in more detail but the five principles that that will be based on already been set out.”
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