Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out rejoining the European Union in his lifetime as the Prime Minister prepares for crunch talks with continental countries “about how we can be closer”.Sir Keir, who campaigned for a second referendum as Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Brexit Secretary, declined to comment on his stance on the bloc five times during an interview with The Observer. The Prime Minister’s comments come just 18 months after he ruled out rejoining the EU ahead of the 2024 General Election.Sir Keir is also coming under pressure from top Labour figures to forge closer ties with Brussels, including from his Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy.
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Speaking to The Observer, the Prime Minister instead said: “We’ve stopped having the discussion about whether we should go backwards and pick over Brexit.”Sir Keir, who has been ramping up his attacks on the architects of Brexit in recent months, also insisted that “the battles coming up in politics” are bigger than him or the Labour Party.He claimed he is not worried about the prospect of Kemi Badenoch becoming the next Prime Minister.However, Sir Keir admitted his fears about Nigel Farage winning the next general election. “I worry about what will happen to our country in terms of tearing our communities apart,” the Prime Minister said.”Once you say that diverse communities aren’t British, that reasonable, compassionate people aren’t part of who we are, and that we don’t want to look after each other, and that only points of division count, you’re going in a different direction.”LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
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