Sir Keir Starmer mentioned there was no “political motive” for the UK to hitch the European Union’s single market to rebuke Sadiq Khan.
Talking on the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland, the Labor chief mentioned the UK-Brussels divorce deal was “not deal” and that he wished the nation to have a “nearer relationship with the EU”.
However he insisted Britain “can not return to the EU,” and that included any settlement to hitch the bloc’s financial neighborhood.
Chatting with the BBC’s Newsnight programme, he mentioned: “We’d settle for that the deal Johnson received just isn’t deal and you may see the affect it’s having on our financial system and that is why we understood it that we would like a better relationship with the EU.
“That begins with the protocol in Northern Eire, it then goes right into a dialogue of how shut we might be. We can not return to the EU, there isn’t any political argument for going again to the EU or the one market. However I am having talks about what a better commerce relationship would possibly seem like.”
The feedback can be seen as a blow to Mr Khan, the Labor Mayor of London, who mentioned earlier this month there wanted to be a “pragmatic debate on the advantages of becoming a member of the Customs Union and the Single Market”.
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